A Face in the Crowd
1957-05-29
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2h 5m
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Drama
User Score
271 votes
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Overview
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.
Elia Kazan
Director
Budd Schulberg
Writer
