A Face in the Crowd
“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!”
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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Cast
22 people
Andy Griffith
Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
Known for
The Andy Griffith Show
Matlock
Patricia Neal
Marcia Jeffries
Known for
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Anthony Franciosa
Joey DePalma
Known for
Tenebre
Death Wish II
Walter Matthau
Mel Miller
Known for
Dennis the Menace
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Lee Remick
Betty Lou Fleckum
Known for
The Omen
Anatomy of a Murder
Percy Waram
General Haynesworth
Known for
Ministry of Fear
Mutiny on the Bounty
Paul McGrath
Macey
Known for
Advise & Consent
Rod Brasfield
Beanie
Also in
Country Music Holiday
Marshall Neilan
Senator Worthington Fuller
Also in
Madame Butterfly
'Walk, -- You, Walk!'
Alexander Kirkland
Jim Collier
Also in
Strange Interlude
Social Register
Charles Irving
Mr. Luffler
Known for
Head
Countdown
Howard Smith
J.B. Jeffries
Known for
Kiss of Death
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Elia Kazan Director · Budd Schulberg Screenplay Tom Glazer Composer
United States release May 29, 1957 · Produced in United States · Production Warner Bros. Pictures
Production
Newtown Productions
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Warner Bros. Pictures
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United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · May 28, 1957
Premiere · Chicago, Illinois
United States · May 29, 1957
Limited theatrical · Los Angeles, California
United States
June 1, 1957 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 31, 1958 · Theatrical
France
November 16, 1957 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
October 1, 1957 · Theatrical
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