A Face in the Crowd
1957 · 125 min
Directed by Elia Kazan. Written by Budd Schulberg. Starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau.
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.
Critics 95% · audiences 93% · streaming on Hoopla, TCM, Tubi