Film A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
As part of the NC Museum of Art winter film series, I saw A Face in the Crowd tonight. You can read my friend and curator "moviediva"'s notes; here is the description that she posted:
Directed by Elia Kazan. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Lee Remick, Walter Matthau (127 min.)
Lonesone Rhodes, a country boy with the gift of gab, is discovered by an ambitious producer and catapulted into, and corrupted by, television fame. A Face in the Crowd was ahead of its time in anticipating mass media power; a cautionary tale that many 1950s reviewers viewed as both unrealistic and unpatriotic.
What an interesting and scary character that Andy Griffith plays!
Directed by Elia Kazan. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Lee Remick, Walter Matthau (127 min.)
Lonesone Rhodes, a country boy with the gift of gab, is discovered by an ambitious producer and catapulted into, and corrupted by, television fame. A Face in the Crowd was ahead of its time in anticipating mass media power; a cautionary tale that many 1950s reviewers viewed as both unrealistic and unpatriotic.
What an interesting and scary character that Andy Griffith plays!
posted by Dilip at 12:57 AM
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