A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Name: A Face in the Crowd
Director: Elia Kazan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-05-29
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick

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!

29 May 1957 · 2h 05mDrama

★ 7.6 / 10 · 286 votes on TMDB

Directed by Elia Kazan

What it's about

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.