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Bookmark or Share- A Face in the Crowd (1957) - Turner Classic MoviesLonesome Rhodes: I put my whole self into everything I do. Lonesome Rhodes: This whole country's just like my flock of sheep! Hillbillies, hausfraus - everybody that's got to jump when someone else blows a whistle! They're mine! Compiled by Scott McGee & Jeff Stafford
- A Face in the Crowd (film) - WikipediaThe story centers on Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a drifter who is discovered by the producer (Neal) of a small-market radio program in rural northeast Arkansas, and who rises to great fame and influence on national television.
- The Rise of a Narcissistic Populist Despot: A Face in the Crowd, a ...Lonesome Rhodes is a grotesque and Griffith conveys this essential quality with unabashed brio. Rhodes is obnoxious in every sense of the word. He’s a big guy, so he makes himself even larger by taking up as much space as he possibly can.
- A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan, Drama, Social Criticism | BritannicaA Face in the Crowd, American film drama, released in 1957, that was especially noted for the performance by Andy Griffith in his movie debut. Griffith portrayed the charismatic, but manipulative, country singer Larry (“Lonesome”) Rhodes, who is idolized by the very masses he disdains in private.
- A Face in the Crowd (film) - WikiquotePatricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries and Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes. A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 film about an Arkansas hobo who becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become? Directed by Elia Kazan.
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