A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Directed by Elia Kazan · 125 min · Drama
44.2 TOPICAL score · #2,348 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
A Face in the Crowd (1957, directed by Elia Kazan) has a TOPICAL score of 44.2 - ranked 2,348 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and audience, and lowest on awards. Critics: 89% on Rotten Tomatoes · Metacritic 72. Audiences: TMDB 7.6/10 (286 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 20 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- Critics89% on Rotten Tomatoes · Metacritic 72
- AudienceTMDB 7.6/10 (286 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 20 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read28,175 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal (actor #304), Anthony Franciosa (actor #1,377), Walter Matthau (actor #274)