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A Face in the Crowd (1957) 8.0
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? Director:Elia KazanWriter:Budd Schulberg (story) |
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Joey DePalma
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Mel Miller
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Betty Lou Fleckum
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Macey
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Beanie
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Marshall Neilan | ... |
Senator Worthington Fuller
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Jim Collier
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Mr. Luffler
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Howard Smith | ... |
J.B. Jeffries
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Kay Medford | ... |
First Mrs. Rhodes
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Big Jeff Bess | ... |
Sheriff Big Jeff Bess
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Abe Steiner
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"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. Written by alfiehitchie
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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!Genres:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
June 1957 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.85 : 1
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(1957) (uncredited)
Music by Tom Glazer
Lyrics by Budd Schulberg
Sung by Andy Griffith
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Trivia
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. See more »Goofs
In the scene where Marcia is recording Larry in the jail, she surreptitiously records him as he is warming up. When he announces that he's ready, she reveals the microphone and then stops the tape. However, when she is replaying the tape, Larry can be heard asking if she had the recorder on the whole time. See more »Quotes
First Mrs. Rhodes: So... you're Lonesome's new tootsie, huh? "Lonesome," he's a hot one. I hope you have better luck keeping him Lonesome than I did.See more »
Soundtracks
"Free Man in the Morning"(1957) (uncredited)
Music by Tom Glazer
Lyrics by Budd Schulberg
Sung by Andy Griffith
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I just find it hard to believe that Andy Griffith received no kudos or award nominations for his role as Lonesome Rhodes in this movie. His performance is quite amazing. I think that because he played such an obnoxious person, one that we really come to dislike, that people confused the role with the actor. I just saw it on TV (Dec, 2002), and maybe the world of 1957 just was not ready for this kind of realism.