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.
A Face in the Crowd has generally received very positive reviews.
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Review of A Face in the Crowd (1957)
By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 15 Nov 2010
Review of A Face in the Crowd (1957)
By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Feb 2008
Review of A Face in the Crowd (1957)
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A Face in the Crowd was released in 1957 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 264 reviews, giving A Face in the Crowd (1957) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 91%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 82%.
With a score of 80%, A Face in the Crowd is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1957, which stands at 60%.
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