A Face In The Crowd (1957)
Directed by Elia Kazan · Cinematography by Gayne Rescher, Harry Stradling Sr.
Approved126 min62 frames
Drama
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!
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A Face In The Crowd — official trailer
What is A Face In The Crowd about?
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.
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What does the cinematography of A Face In The Crowd look like?
Across 62 sampled frames, A Face In The Crowd builds its coverage from medium shots (61% of the sample), with wide compositions (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Gayne Rescher keeps 35% of it in soft, high-key light. 48% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1950s.
What is the color palette of A Face In The Crowd?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of A Face In The Crowd (1957) are #010101, #fefefe, #868686, #c8c8c8, #323232, #444444 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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