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A Face in the Crowd

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/ 1019572h 5mNR

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.

Directed by Elia Kazan

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Andy Griffith

Andy Griffith

Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes

Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal

Marcia Jeffries

Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa

Joey DePalma

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Mel Miller

Lee Remick

Lee Remick

Betty Lou Fleckum

Percy Waram

Percy Waram

General Haynesworth

Paul McGrath

Paul McGrath

Macey

Rod Brasfield

Rod Brasfield

Beanie