A face in the crowd

A face in the crowd

DVD - 2019

An Arkansas hobo 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?

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Subjects
Schulberg, Budd > Film adaptations.
Television personalities > Drama.
Entertainers > Drama.
Humorists, American > Drama.
Manipulative behavior > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2019]
Language
English
Other Authors
Elia Kazan (film director), Budd Schulberg (screenwriter), Andy Griffith, 1926-2012 (actor), Patricia Neal, 1926-2010 (-), Anthony Franciosa, 1928-2006
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen
Item Description
Based on The Arkansas Traveler / by Budd Schulberg.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: New interviews with Ron Briley and Evan Dalton Smith; Facing the past, a 2005 documentary; trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, wide screen (1.85:1); mono.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Songs by Tom Glazer and Budd Schulberg.
ISBN
9781681435749
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Discovered in a small-town jail by a talent-scouting radio-show producer (Patricia Neal), Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) parlays his gift for guitar licks and folksy ditties into power-wielding television stardom as a populist demagog. Director Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) showcases a blistering lead performance in screenwriter Budd Schulberg's cautionary parable about the media creation of a two-faced megalomaniac ultimately brought down by his ambitious creator--who had the misfortune of falling for him--in this handsomely restored tour de force. [See Trailers, LJ 4/19.]

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