Fresh
A Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
A Face in the Crowd
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 · Approved
Drama
Directed by
Elia Kazan
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A Face in the Crowd
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.
Director and cast
- Elia Kazan Director
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Rotten
What starts out as a seemingly liberal tract rapidly becomes a smug, cynical exercise in misanthropy.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
This sizzling and cynical exposure... also presents Andy Griffith as the key figure in his first screen role.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Andy Griffith, as a hick radio star modeled on Arthur Godfrey, delivers an astonishing, sinister performance in Elia Kazan's 1957 essay on media demagoguery.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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