Film

A Face in the Crowd 1957

Directed by Elia Kazan

  • Drama
  • 125 min
  • NR

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!

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.

Dramanew york citysouthern usapoliticsarkansasrise and fallmemphis, tennesseefameblack and whitebased on short storyhickpersonality

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