A Face in the Crowd

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-06-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (9179 Reviews)

Director:

Elia Kazan

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Andy Griffith Patricia Neal Anthony Franciosa Walter Matthau

Writer:

Budd Schulberg (story)

Fullplot:

"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.

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