A Face in the Crowd
1957 · TMDB 7.6
Directed by Elia Kazan
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.
Why it matters
A drifter becomes a overnight TV sensation, but his newfound fame corrupts him and traps him in a persona he can't escape.
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Released
- 1957-05-29
- Studio
- Newtown Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.6
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