A Face in the Crowd (1957)

1957 · 125 min · Drama

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. Starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau and Lee Remick.

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