A Face in the Crowd (1957) The Criterion Collection

A Face In The Crowd. AFS Virtual Movie Club Presents A Face in the Crowd Aurora Film Society His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative. A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later become a mean-spirited, opportunistic political demagogue and megalomaniac as a pop TV show icon.

"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 'A Face in the Crowd' with Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau and many others.

A Face in the Crowd (1957) The Criterion Collection

His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative. "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 by Katharine Mussellam, Staff Writer While television certainly isn't dead, such a description underplays the way this film so strikingly speaks to how online culture shapes our contemporary world.

A FACE IN THE CROWD, 1957, Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick. "A Face in the Crowd" is a timeless classic that masterfully explores the dark side of fame and power, elevated by the outstanding performances of its cast. 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

A Face in the Crowd eBook by Stephen King, Stewart O'Nan Official Publisher Page Simon. 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.