Your thoughts on the film 'A Face in the Crowd'

[WI_DEM]

This may be my favorite American film. Starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau and Lee Remick and directed by Elia Kazan, A Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant. Today, it may be more relevant than ever thanks to radio 'personalities' like Rush Limbaugh and 'reality' TV. It's a great American film, in my opinion.

[Justice wanted]

1. AWESOME movie speaks to our times more and more. Andy Griffith is Wickedly Brilliant in that role

he freakin is scary.

[Lint Head]

2. I love this movie!

[deutsey]

3. It's been a while since I've seen it

but I remembered it being amazingly prescient (I saw it in the '90s).

I liked it and would like to see it again. In my memory, it's ranked up there with Network as one of the few movies to pull back the curtain on what's going on behind the scenes.

[T S Justly]

4. Showed Andy's acting genius. K&R (nt)

[thelordofhell]

5. It predicted Andy Griffith's whole career

Oh, and Patricia Neal was drop dead gorgeous back in the day.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Budd Schulberg's screenplay and Andy Griffith's great performance make it one of

my top film picks of any kind, from any time. A flawless gem of a film.

[WI_DEM]

7. thanks for pointing out the writer, based on his story 'Your Arkansas Traveler'

[BeHereNow]

8. Elia Kazan: One of the BEST films ever made.

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Remind you of anyone DU?

BHN

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. I watched it after Keith started calling Beck "Lonesome Rhodes"

it was stunning. Almost like the Beck handlers took their script for him straight from this flick.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I saw it when it came out in 1957 or so, and again last year on tv.

It had held up well, and of course appeared very prescient upon later viewing.
FWIW, I always adored Patrica Neal.

[murielm99]

11. I love this movie.

Yes, it is prescient.

I rented it from Netflix a couple of times, and made my husband and adult children sit down and watch it. They were glad they did.

At the time, it was purported to be a thinly disguised portrayal of Arthur Godfrey. Whether or not that is true, it is a great film about the media and how it can be misused.

[kskiska]

13. I've read that about Godfrey, too

He was a tyrant behind the scenes, a fact that Andy Rooney, who worked for him, has attested to. After success on radio, Godfrey had a morning TV show 5 days a week, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on Monday nights, and Arthur Godfrey and His Friends on Wednesday nights. He was omnipresent on TV and actually insulted and fired some of his regular "friends" on the air. It's easy to see how he may have been the inspiration for this film. He had no real talent except for promoting himself as a folksy presence over the air waves.

My mother listened to him, as did I, back in the 50s.

[raouldukelives]

12. Great movie. Right up there with Capra's best.

Easily my favorite Griffith flick followed closely by No Time for Sergeants.