A Face In The Crowd (1957)

Directed by Elia Kazan · Cinematography by Gayne Rescher, Harry Stradling Sr.

Approved126 min62 frames

Drama

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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