Released
A Face in the Crowd
May 29 1957 (over 67 years ago)Rating
76
Based on
238 reviews
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!
- Director: Elia Kazan
- Writer: Budd Schulberg
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 2 h 5 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Newtown Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
