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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 · NR · 2h 5m

Directed by Elia Kazan

7.6

TMDB audience score
290 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Andy Griffith
    Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes

  • Patricia Neal
    Marcia Jeffries

  • Anthony Franciosa
    Joey DePalma

  • Walter Matthau
    Mel Miller

  • Lee Remick
    Betty Lou Fleckum

  • Percy Waram
    General Haynesworth

  • Paul McGrath
    Macey

  • Rod Brasfield
    Beanie

  • Marshall Neilan
    Senator Worthington Fuller

  • Alexander Kirkland
    Jim Collier

  • Charles Irving
    Mr. Luffler

  • Howard Smith
    J.B. Jeffries

  • Kay Medford
    First Mrs. Rhodes

  • Big Jeff Bess
    Sheriff Big Jeff Bess

  • Henry Sharp
    Abe Steiner

  • R.G. Armstrong
    Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

  • Lois Nettleton
    Mr. Macey's Nurse (uncredited)

  • Diana Sands
    Homeless Woman (uncredited)