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A Face in the Crowd

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!

19572h 5mNR 7.6/ 10

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.

Cast

  • Andy GriffithLarry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
  • Patricia NealMarcia Jeffries
  • Anthony FranciosaJoey DePalma
  • Walter MatthauMel Miller
  • Lee RemickBetty Lou Fleckum
  • Percy WaramGeneral Haynesworth
  • Paul McGrathMacey
  • Rod BrasfieldBeanie
  • Marshall NeilanSenator Worthington Fuller
  • Alexander KirklandJim Collier
  • C
    Charles IrvingMr. Luffler
  • Howard SmithJ.B. Jeffries
  • Kay MedfordFirst Mrs. Rhodes
  • B
    Big Jeff BessSheriff Big Jeff Bess
  • H
    Henry SharpAbe Steiner
  • R.G. ArmstrongTeleprompter Operator (uncredited)

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