A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 film starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg, based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler". The story centers on a drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes , who is discovered by the producer of a small-market radio program in rural northeast Arkansas. Rhodes ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television. The film launched Griffith into stardom, but earned mixed reviews upon its original release. Later decades have seen reappraisals of the movie, and in... 2008 A Face in the Crowd was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In late 1950s America, a drunken drifter, Larry Rhodes , is plucked out of a rural Arkansas jail by Marcia Jeffries to sing on a radio show at station KGRK.
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| Release date: | May 28, 1957 |
| Directed by: | Elia Kazan |
| Runtime: | 125 Minutes |
| Producer: | Elia Kazan |
| Music by: | Tom Glazer |
| Cinematography: | Harry Stradling, Gayne Rescher |
| Screenplay by: | Budd Schulberg |
| Adapted from: | Your Arkansas Traveler |