A Face in the Crowd (Americans at 250 Film Series)

Director Elia Kazan’s 1957 satirical drama charts the meteoric rise and fall of Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith in his first film role), an itinerant drifter plucked from an Arkansas jail. Driven by intoxicating power, he transforms from a homespun radio singer into a tyrannical, politically manipulative national television superstar. (2 hr 5 min, NR)
“People should see A Face in the Crowd over and over again.” -- Martin Scorsese