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A Face in the Crowd (1957)
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More timely now, perhaps, than when it was first released in 1957, Elia Kazan's overheated political melodrama explores the dangerous manipulative power of pop culture. It exposes the underside of Capra-corn populism, as exemplified in the optimistic fable of grassroots punditry Meet John Doe. In Kazan's account, scripted by Budd Schulberg, the common-man pontificator (Andy Griffith) is no Gary Cooper-style aw-shucks paragon. Promoted to national fame as a folksy TV idol by radio producer Patricia Neal, Griffith's Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes turns out to be a megalomaniacal rat bastard. The film turns apocalyptic as Rhodes exploits his...
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| A Face in the Crowd Movie Review by E (7/19/2008) |
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Director Elia Kazan is famous for his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, when he (eventually) named communist party sympathizers. Whether one agrees with his decision to drop names or not, the film legacy Kazan has left us is indisputably rich, particularly during the 1950s. That decade yielded...
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