Very odd. In the early scenes Everett Sloane's character has a very noticeable bad makeup job. Notice how on his left side, the face has black character lines that look as if they were applied with a black felt tipped pen. Leo Lotito Jr was in charge of makeup, and had a very long career as a makeup artist in the motion picture industry. The only explanation I can imagine is that perhaps this would not look the same in 1955 low-resolution television, but now is obvious on my HDTV.