A Face in the Crowd poster
Director Elia Kazan
Screenplay Budd Schulberg

A Face in the Crowd

Drama1957

Tagline: 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!

Release Date: 1957-05-29

Duration: 125 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Lee Remick
    Betty Lou Fleckum
  • Walter Matthau
    Mel Miller
  • Andy Griffith
    Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
  • Rip Torn
    Barry Mills (uncredited)
  • Lois Nettleton
    Mr. Macey's Nurse (uncredited)
  • Patricia Neal
    Marcia Jeffries
  • R. G. Armstrong
    Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
  • John Bliss
    Barefoot Baritone (uncredited)
  • Noah Keen
    TV Director (uncredited)
  • Anthony Franciosa
    Joey DePalma