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A Face in the Crowd

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A Face in the Crowd
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NR,2hrs 6min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1957
Director:
Elia Kazan
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa  ...more
Synopsis: The meteoric popularity of Arthur Godfrey was allegedly the basis of the 1957 drama Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith makes a spectacular film debut as Lonesome Rhodes, a philosophical country-western singer discovered in a tanktown jail by television talent coordinator Patricia Neal and her assistant Walter Matthau. They decide that Rhodes is worthy of a TV guest spot, the result being that the gangly, aw-shucks entertainer becomes an overnight sensation. As he ascends to stardom, Rhodes attracts ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
While it's about as subtle as a stick of dynamite in a keg of nails, A Face in the Crowd was one of the first intelligent attempts to examine the impact of mass media on average citizens. If Budd Schulberg's script plays its hand too heavily by today's standards (it's pretty hard to shock anyone now by telling them television can be used to manipulate the mass audience), it still works, thanks largely ... Full Review
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Andy Griffith
Lonesome Rhodes
Patricia Neal
Marcia Jeffries
Anthony Franciosa
Joey Kiely
Walter Matthau
Mel Miller
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