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A Face in the Crowd

Turkish title: Kalabalıkta Bir Yüz

“POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls … he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!”

1957 · 2 h 6 min
Directed by Elia Kazan
DramaMusical

Cast

Andy Griffith Patricia Neal Walter Matthau

Credits

Written by: Budd Schulberg

Plot

A drifter becomes a television star and then a powerful, dangerous figure.

Sinekatalog’s take

Elia Kazan's media satire has Andy Griffith as a folksy drifter who becomes a demagogue. Prophetic and sharp, with a chilling lead performance, it now feels uncannily relevant.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 8.1 / 10 (19,645 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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