"A Face in the Crowd" charts 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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"A Face in the Crowd" charts 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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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThis is one of the greatest films of the 1950s, a prophetic film about the dangerous power of modern media. |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellyElia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd [is] a darker take on faux-populism that's somehow still not as dark as what's happening on our side of the screen. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesGriffith's hungry, lunging performance is a shock and a revelation to anyone who knows him primarily from The Andy Griffith Show or, God knows, Matlock. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanA Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant. |
| Vanity FairJames WalcottHalf a century after Elia Kazan made A Face in the Crowd, the performances–by Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Anthony Franciosa–are still pungent, the dark tale of media manipulation still resonates, and even fans can't quite define its power. |
| Nitrate OnlineDan LybargerDidactic but highly effective little black comedy from the folks who gave you 'On the Waterfront.' Andy Griffith is downright scary. |
| Filmcritic.comDavid BezansonNext time you feel like you're getting fooled again by a demagogue, rent this movie and get centered |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIt's like an early version of Network, and it's just as overwrought, but Kazan enlivens the material with a mise en scène so vigorous that it could make anyone buy into the auteur theory. Kazan varies his shooting style, alternating between portraiture, expressionism, and docu-realism for a look and rhythm that's about 15 years ahead of its time. |
| Film4Film4 StaffThe first half of A Face in the Crowd is genuinely intriguing and competently handled by Kazan, but it quickly degenerates into moralizing diatribe. |
| Movie MomNell MinowA little overdone, but Neal and Remick are brilliant. |
