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A Face in the Crowd
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Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Patricia Neal plays Marcia Jeffries, 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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The setting for the film is late 1950s America, a time during which television was rapidly replacing radio as the most popular entertainment medium... more (warning! contains spoilers)

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