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- A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later become a mean-spirited, opportunistic political demagogue and megalomaniac as a pop TV show icon.
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A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 American satirical drama film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Budd Schulberg is based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler" from the 1953 collection Some Faces in the Crowd. The story centers on Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes ...
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In Pickett, Arkansas, Marcia Jeffries goes to the local jail to interview the prisoners for her radio program called "A Face in the Crowd". She finds the boisterous drunken drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes that plays guitar and tells jokes becoming the show a great success.
Nov 7, 2019 · A Face in the Crowd follows Larry Rhodes (Griffith), a nobody locked in an Arkansas jail who’s picked up by an ambitious radio producer called Marcia (Neal) to be part of a radio show she’s producing.
Conflict is created at every turn by most every character as they try to manipulate others to get their way. Marcia manipulates the inmates of the jail cell to get her “Face in the Crowd” radio show. “Lonesome” Rhodes manipulates the sheriff to get out early.
A Face in the Crowd: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau. Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhoades into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise.
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- Drama, Music
- Elia Kazan
- 1957-06-01
A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later become a mean-spirited, opportunistic political demagogue and megalomaniac as a pop TV show icon.
A Face in the Crowd, American film drama, released in 1957, that was especially noted for the performance by Andy Griffith in his movie debut. Griffith portrayed the charismatic, but manipulative, country singer Larry (“Lonesome”) Rhodes, who is idolized by the very masses he disdains in private.
