“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.

A Face in the Crowd (1957)
  • Rating: (5,789 votes)
  • Tagline: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! »
  • Runtime:126 minutes
  • Director: Elia Kazan
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
    Andy Griffith
    Marcia Jeffries
    Patricia Neal
    Joey DePalma
    Anthony Franciosa
    Mel Miller
    Walter Matthau
    Betty Lou Fleckum
    Lee Remick
    Gen. Haynesworth
    Percy Waram
    Macey
    Paul McGrath
    Beanie
    Rod Brasfield
    Senator Worthington Fuller
    Marshall Neilan
    Jim Collier
    Alexander Kirkland
  • Genre:Drama
  • Producer:
    Elia Kazan
    producer (uncredited)  
  • Plots: "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. Written by alfiehitchie
A Face in the Crowd
  • User's comment:Hilariously dramatic by helpless_dancer

    One of the best pictures I've seen to date. Griffith had the part of the womanizing, opinionated, lazy, loud mouthed bum down pat. In fact, the entire cast was superb in this dynamic, gripping, and in the first half, uproariously funny drama which clearly shows how ego can not only destroy the egotist but those close to him. This film is an equal to Griffith's fine performances as Horton Maddock in "Savages" and Howard Pike in "Hearts of the West". 4 stars.


  • Quotes: Joey DePalma: Illegal? Honey, nothing's illegal if they don't catch you! Marcia Jeffries: You put your whole self into that laugh, don't you? Lonesome Rhodes: Marcia, I put my whole self into everything I do.
  • Also known as: Das Gesicht in der Menge (Germany), Das Gesicht in der Menge (West Germany), Um Rosto na Multidão (Brazil - imdb display title), Um Rosto na Multidão (Portugal), Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd (USA - complete title), Egy arc a tömegben (Hungary - imdb display title), Ein Gesicht in der Menge (Austria), Et ansigt i mængden (Denmark), Ett ansikte i mängden (Sweden), Kasvot väkijoukossa (Finland), Mia morfi mesa sto plithos (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Twarz w tlumie (Poland - imdb display title), Un homme dans la foule (France), Un rostro en la multitud (Spain), Un volto nella folla (Italy),

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