A Face in the Crowd (1957)

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!

Movie · Drama · 2h 5m · Rated 7.6/10 on TMDB · Released May 29, 1957

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.

Directed by Elia Kazan

Cast

• Andy Griffith as Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
• Patricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries
• Anthony Franciosa as Joey DePalma
• Walter Matthau as Mel Miller
• Lee Remick as Betty Lou Fleckum
• Percy Waram as General Haynesworth
• Paul McGrath as Macey
• Rod Brasfield as Beanie
• Marshall Neilan as Senator Worthington Fuller
• Alexander Kirkland as Jim Collier
• Charles Irving as Mr. Luffler
• Howard Smith as J.B. Jeffries

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