A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd

1957 | 2h 6m | Musical, Drama | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

An Arkansas drifter is discovered by the producer of a small radio station and becomes an overnight media sensation, ultimately rising to great fame and influence on national television.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Elia Kazan

CAST

Andy Griffith

Patricia Neal

Anthony Franciosa

Lee Remick

Walter Matthau

PRODUCERS

Elia Kazan

WRITERS

Budd Schulberg

Host Intros

06:49
Dennis Miller And Friends (Jay Leno): A Face In The Crowd
Intro Aired: Dec 2019
Introduction and comments following A Face In The Crowd, 1957, from Dennis Miller and friend Jay Leno.
08:36
Co-Host Bruce Springsteen: A Face In The Crowd
Intro Aired: Nov 2019
Introduction and comments following A Face In The Crowd, 1957, from TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and special co-host Bruce Springsteen.
02:21
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- A Face In The Crowd (1957)
Intro Aired: Jan 2019
Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
02:15
Alicia Malone Intro -- A Face In The Crowd (1957)
Intro Aired: Jul 2018
TCM's Alicia Malone introduces A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
01:46
Tiffany Vazquez Intro -- A Face In The Crowd (1957)
Intro Aired: Sep 2016
TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

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Face In The Crowd, A (1957) -- (Movie Clip) You're My Idol!
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Lust in the heart of Andy Griffith, as now nationally famous media freak Lonesome Rhodes, back in Arkansas to judge a baton-twirling contest, won hands-down by Betty Lou (Lee Remick, in her first movie), in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
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Face in the Crowd, A (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Lonesome Rhodes
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Small-time Arkansas radio hostess Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) is doing her man-on-the-street show from the jail, where she meets prickly inmate Rhodes (Andy Griffith), and invents his name, early in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
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Face in the Crowd, A (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Big City Pickle Hearts
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First show at the big Memphis TV station, Marcia (Patricia Neal) introduces writer Mel (Walter Matthau) to the new star she discovered the unscrupulous "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith), who doesn't want a script, in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
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Face in the Crowd, A (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Cold Fish Respectable Girls
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Marcia (Patricia Neal), discoverer of radio phenom Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith), introduces a Memphis agent (Henry Sharp), then follows him through a broadcast, a gag on her station-manager father, and an on-air negotiation, in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
Face In The Crowd, A (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Vitajex!
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His new self-appointed manager Tony Franciosa helping with the pitch, crazed TV personality Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) performs and outlandish commercial, as imagined by screenwriter Budd Schulberg and director Elia Kazan, a famous scene from A Face In The Crowd, 1957.
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Face in the Crowd, A - (Original Trailer)
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Television turns a folk-singing drifter (Andy Griffith) into a media celebrity in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).

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