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Overview

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Director:
Elia Kazan
Writers:
Budd Schulberg (story)
Budd Schulberg (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 October 1957 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
An Arkansas hobo becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become? full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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(5 articles)
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User Comments:
Entertain the ignorant masses and they'll follow you anywhere. more

Cast

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Andy Griffith ... Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
Patricia Neal ... Marcia Jeffries

Anthony Franciosa ... Joey DePalma

Walter Matthau ... Mel Miller
Lee Remick ... Betty Lou Fleckum
Percy Waram ... Gen. Haynesworth
Paul McGrath ... Macey
Rod Brasfield ... Beanie
Marshall Neilan ... Senator Worthington Fuller
Alexander Kirkland ... Jim Collier
Charles Irving ... Mr. Luffler
Howard Smith ... J.B. Jeffries
Kay Medford ... First Mrs. Rhodes
Big Jeff Bess ... Sheriff Big Jeff Bess
Henry Sharp ... Abe Steiner
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
125 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #18502) | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:15

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The Vitajex tablets that Lonesome Rhodes hawks have 6 grains of dextrose, 5 grains of inert material, 2.5 grains of caffeine, and 3.5 grains of aspirin. That's roughly equivalent to a 16 oz café latte and two baby aspirin tablets. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): This is not an error. The music used is, indeed, from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. more
Quotes:
Lonesome Rhodes: This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!
Marcia Jeffries: Sheep?
Lonesome Rhodes: Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don't know it yet, but they're all gonna be 'Fighters for Fuller'. They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I'm gonna be the power behind the president - and you'll be the power behind me!
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Featured in Facing the Past (2005) (V) more

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49 out of 59 people found the following comment useful:-
Entertain the ignorant masses and they'll follow you anywhere., 11 May 2000
Author: yenlo from Auburn, Me

The fictional story of a vagabond who is discovered and becomes a mega entertainment star who not only aquires fame and fortune but also political power. I came away from this film with the thinking that in 1957 when the picture came out in a strange way it must have terrified viewers. The film was clearly ahead of its time. By todays standards the egotistical, cynical and power hungry Lonesome Rhodes actually is quite tame but in 57 he must have been viewed as a cross between Hitler and Arthur Godfrey. Andy Griffith is nothing less than brilliant as Rhodes. Superb support from Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Anthony Franciosa and Lee Remick in her first motion picture. The movie never lags as it grips the viewer from the opening right to the final scene.

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