A Face in The Crowd

This movie is so prescient

I've been waiting for 4 years for Trump to have his Lonesome Rhodes moment......fingers crossed it happens soon.

I love this movie! Watched it a couple of months ago on TCM, and it was like watching the Donald Trump Story.

Trump has been having Lonesome Rhodes moments left, right and center. It’s well reported how little he thinks of the white working class, southerners, religious people, etc. His troglodytic base doesn’t care.

Awesome movie, though. Why it’s not better known, I’ll never understand. It stands with the best of Kazan's work. And you’ll never see Andy Griffith the same way again.

VitaJex......it sounds like something Larry King would advertsie.

The sort of people who would enjoy a demagogue like Lonesome Rhodes deserve any and all contempt they receive.

The only people Trump likes, stars, society people, billionaire CEOs, crooks and dictators either can't stand him or are just using him. That gives me great comfort

Andy Griffith was pretty scary in this.

R2, I was hoping the pussygrabber tape would be his Lonesome Rhodes moment, but....nah

Hopefully it will be the "I wanted to always play it down" tape

I love that Andy Griffith was an enthusiastic life-long Democrat.

I think one of the last things he ever did was a commercial endorsement for Obama.

Thanks for the suggestion OP. I put this on my Netflix queue list.

When Limbaugh was at his peak, I was praying for a Lonesome Rhodes moment.

This movie has several good performances, including Lee Remick's debut. Walter Matthau, Patricia Neal, Andy Griffith and Tony Franciosa made it worth watching.

[quote] The only people Trump likes, stars, society people, billionaire CEOs, crooks and dictators either can't stand him or are just using him. That gives me great comfort

Yeah, me too. If even dictators hate Donald Trump, they may be a dictatorship won’t be so bad after all.

The cast was perfect in this! I loved when lonesome Rhodes first saw Lee Remick and her baton, it is exactly how I would imagine Trump licking his chops at one of his beauty contests. This is a classic tale of the populist archetype, he was like Will Rogers crossed with Huey Long.

Turner Classic Movies aired this on Inauguration Day 2017. They tried to tell us...

Dump will finally tell everyone what he thinks of his followers long after he leaves office and has nothing to lose. And I'll look forward to the Deplorable Tears.

I thought it was less interesting than All the King's Men. That film went deeper, I thought, into the character of power.

SPOILER:

"Hot Microphone" - Beware the Ides of October - Thursday, October 15.

I don't know, r4. I lost my faith in him when he didn't have the sense to immediately get that bed jacket for Aunt Bee...

[quote]I've been waiting for 4 years for Trump to have his Lonesome Rhodes moment......fingers crossed it happens soon.

It can't happen like that again, because we've lost all sense of propriety as a society. No one cares about things that back in the '50s would have been career suicide.

One of the best movies I've ever seen and I can't comprehend why it's not talked about as much. Everyone is perfectly cast and I had no idea Andy had a performance like this in him. I was so used to seeing him as the kind, upstanding character he played on his TV shows from when I was a kid. He deserved an Oscar for this performance. I love when people known for being funny or kind on screen come out with a performance like this and it takes everyone by surprise.

Brilliant performance by Andy Griffith.

He played another psycho in a TV movie called "Pray for the Wildcats" and was just as good in that.

Andy Griffith is not to be underestimated! He was the stealth bomber of acting.

He played another great psycho in the 90s tv-movie "Gramps", where he played John Ritter's estranged father. It was kind of like a gender-bending version of the Jessica Lange/Goop movie "Hush".

He was also good in "Waitress."

[quote]Everyone is perfectly cast and I had no idea Andy had a performance like this in him. I was so used to seeing him as the kind, upstanding character he played on his TV shows from when I was a kid.

I wonder if the impact might have been somewhat different when the film was released, as "The Andy Griffith Show" hadn't started yet, and he was pretty much unknown at the time.

This IS Trump.

Terrific film.

I love it when actors subvert their wholesome image and tackle nasty roles. Tom Hanks should take off his halo and try something like this.

Showed it to my students when trump was elected. Waited to see what they said. One or two, "This is trump!"

Wasn't it supposed to be based (at least to some extent) on Arthur Godfrey?

Anybody watching the film needs to look out for the camel toe.

Three bimbos are in the background in matching outfits and one of them is a toey as can be. We laughed out loud when we watched the Criterion Blu Ray a couple of months ago.

Great film.

R32 you are so right.

Do you realize the cheerleader is a very young Lee Remick?

Wish I could agree with your enthusiasm for Andy, but I find his performance so over the top and obnoxious that I can't bear to watch. Just like I can't watch Trump. Maybe that proves your point, but cringy is cringy.

[quote]Do you realize the cheerleader is a very young Lee Remick?

Do you realize she was mentioned in R12?

I first saw this in the late 00s because Keith Olbermann used to call Glenn Beck Lonesome Rhodes in his end of show monologues...I couldn't the movie had been so forgotten - it is a brilliant yet chilling film and one of Kazan's best. Is it streaming anywhere? Does TCM has a streaming service?

TCM has much of its catalog on HBO Max. Not sure if that includes AFITC.

Free on DirecTV and TCM (with cable subscription).

$3 rental at most other services.

[quote] Is it streaming anywhere? Does TCM has a streaming service?

It's streaming now on Watch TCM, but hurry -- they only keep their movies up for about a week after it airs.