A Face in the Crowd

Name: A Face in the Crowd
Director: Elia Kazan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-05-29
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Rating: 7.61
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick

“POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls … he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!”

1957

2h 5m

Drama

Director: Elia Kazan

Writer: Budd Schulberg

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Overview

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.