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1957
  • Drama

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!
Runtime
2h 5m
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  • United States
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Languages
  • en
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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Budd Schulberg
Screenplay
Elia Kazan
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Cast
Andy Griffith
Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
Patricia Neal
Marcia Jeffries
Anthony Franciosa
Joey DePalma
Walter Matthau
Mel Miller
Lee Remick
Betty Lou Fleckum
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  • Status
    Released
  • Release date
    May 29, 1957
  • Original Language
    English
  • Production Companies
    • Newtown Productions
    • Warner Bros. Pictures

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