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A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 American satirical drama film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Andy Griffith (in his film debut), Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Budd Schulberg is based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler", from the 1953 collection Some Faces in the Crowd .
A Face in the Crowd: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau. Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhoades into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise.
A Face in the Crowd, American film drama, released in 1957, that was especially noted for the performance by Andy Griffith in his movie debut. Griffith portrayed the charismatic, but manipulative, country singer Larry (“Lonesome”) Rhodes, who is idolized by the very masses he disdains in private.
You'll notice a number of long takes in A Face in the Crowd. This Elia Kazan technique is probably the result of his fascination with the work of director John Ford, of whom Kazan claimed, "I got more from Ford than anybody else."
A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own.
Apr 23, 2019 · In the searing 1957 satirical drama A Face in the Crowd, Kazan and writer Budd Schulberg gave us the most potent distillation imaginable of the love-hate affair Americans have with the people who charm and hurt and swindle us.
Oct 8, 2020 · A Face in the Crowd paints an unflattering portrait of the viewing public’s gullibility and distractibility, but it held out hope that the American people could be made to see through a...
