A Face in the Crowd

Name: A Face in the Crowd
Director: Marshall Neilan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-05-29
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick

"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!"

7.6(266 votes)

2h 5m

May 29, 1957

Drama

Overview

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.