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A Face in the Crowd(1957)
Status: Released
Date: 1957-05-29
76%
271 Votes
Time: 2h 5m
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!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Newtown Productions
Movie: A Face in the Crowd
Top 10 Billed Cast
Andy Griffith
Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
Patricia Neal
Marcia Jeffries
Anthony Franciosa
Joey DePalma
Walter Matthau
Mel Miller
Lee Remick
Betty Lou Fleckum
Percy Waram
General Haynesworth
Paul McGrath
Macey
Rod Brasfield
Beanie
Marshall Neilan
Senator Worthington Fuller
Alexander Kirkland
Jim Collier
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A Face in the Crowd (1957) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
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