A Face in the Crowd

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.

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  Elia Kazan
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  Don Kranze

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  Andy Griffith
  Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
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  Patricia Neal
  Marcia Jeffries
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  Anthony Franciosa
  Joey DePalma
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  Walter Matthau
  Mel Miller
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  Lee Remick
  Betty Lou Fleckum
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  Percy Waram
  General Haynesworth
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  Paul McGrath
  Macey
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  Rod Brasfield
  Beanie
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  Marshall Neilan
  Senator Worthington Fuller
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  Alexander Kirkland
  Jim Collier
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  Charles Irving
  Mr. Luffler
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  Howard Smith
  J.B. Jeffries
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  Kay Medford
  First Mrs. Rhodes
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  Big Jeff Bess
  Sheriff Big Jeff Bess
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  Henry Sharp
  Abe Steiner
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  R.G. Armstrong
  Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
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  Lois Nettleton
  Mr. Macey's Nurse (uncredited)
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  Diana Sands
  Homeless Woman (uncredited)
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  Rip Torn
  Barry Mills (uncredited)
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  Beverly Bentley
  Page Girl (uncredited)