A face in the crowd
USA, 1957, b&w. Dir.: Elia Kazan. Scr.: Budd Schulberg. Cin.: Gayne Rescher. Ed.: Gene Milford. Mus.: Tom Glazer. Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau. Prod.: Elia Kazan. Dur.: 125΄.
“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. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become? 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
7/9/1909, Constantinople – 28/9/2003, New York
Gentleman’s agreement (1947), Pinky (1949), A streetcar named desire (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), On the waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955), Baby Doll (1956), Splendor in the grass (1961), America, America (1963), The arrangement (1969), The last tycoon (1976).
