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A Face in the Crowd

Name: A Face in the Crowd
Director: Elia Kazan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-05-29
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick

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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Cast

Andy GriffithPatricia NealAnthony FranciosaWalter MatthauLee RemickPercy WaramPaul McGrathRod BrasfieldMarshall NeilanAlexander KirklandCharles IrvingHoward Smith

Director

Elia Kazan

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