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!"

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.

Elia Kazan 125 min United States of America

DirectorElia Kazan

CastAndy Griffith, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, Percy Waram, Walter Matthau

CountryUnited States of America

Duration125 min