A Face in the Crowd 1957
Directed by Elia Kazan | Starring: Walter Matthau, Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Lee Remick
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.