A Face in the Crowd (1957)

posted by Watch Movie Online, June 22, 2010 @ 9:47 am

Movie: A Face in the Crowd (1957)

  • Director: Elia Kazan
  • Release Date: 17 October 1957 (Sweden)
  • Writers: Budd Schulberg (story) Budd Schulberg (screenplay)
  • Run Time: 125 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama  

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!

Trivia: According to a 1983 interview with the actor, the debut role of Charles Nelson Reilly as a saxophonist did not make the final cut of the film.
 

Goofs: Continuity: When introducing his new bride, Lonesome’s jacket goes from being buttoned to being open and back to being buttoned again.
 

“”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”

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