A Face in the Crowd (1957)
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.
- Released
- 1957-05-29
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Elia Kazan, Budd Schulberg
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 from 290 votes
Cast
- 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 General 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