Also Known As: Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd
Company: Newtown Productions
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Plot: "A Face in the Crowd" charts 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.
Cast and Character: 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 Gen. 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 / Kay Medford as First Mrs. Rhodes / Big Jeff Bess as Sheriff Big Jeff Bess / Henry Sharp as Abe Steiner
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: An Arkansas hobo becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
Directors: Elia Kazan
Genres: Drama
Location: Biograph Studios, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0050371.jpg
Rating: 8.0
Release Date: June 1957 (USA)
Runtime: 126 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: 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!
Title: A Face in the Crowd
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/
Votes: 7,155
Writers: Budd Schulberg
Year: 1957
A Face in the Crowd got rated 8.0.
About the movie: "A Face in the Crowd" charts 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.
The Exorcist got rated 8.0.
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Empire of the Sun got rated 7.7.
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The Butcher Boy got rated 7.0.
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