Movie
A Face in the Crowd
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1957-05-29
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Newtown Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
Crew
- Elia Kazan - Director
- Budd Schulberg - Screenplay
- Budd Schulberg - Story
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