A Face in the Crowd
1957

A Face in the Crowd

★ 8.2 / 10
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Directed by Elia Kazan
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Synopsis

"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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Why Eltorama recommends this film

Elia Kazan’s prophecy. A folksy nobody named Lonesome Rhodes climbs from radio prank to TV demagogue in 90 minutes. Andy Griffith never played anything else this dark. The grift was the same; only the platform changed.