I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Fantastic!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A FACE IN THE CROWD is one brisk drama, which follows the rise and fall of a media phenomenon. This is a film about a drifter and an alcoholic who happens to be noticed by the young producer. He becomes, under strange circumstances, the star at a village radio station. The path of glory leads him to national television ...An ordinary man becomes the idol of the nation. A blind belief on the media is, in a period of social development, characterized as a serious problem. This problem is, in certain circumstances, a part of every day life. Some media, becoming a reflection of political and economic power in most countries. Of course, Mr. Kazan did not want to "dig" so deeply, but he scratched the surface. He focused on several of the protagonists and their destiny in a media frenzy.The story is, at times, very exciting. Characterization is really fascinating. The film begins with a strange sense of freedom, but later people become hostages of one mind. Does power corrupt a man's personality? Does the popularity change one's personality, or has just awakened in him the true spirit and lust for power?Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is a tramp with an interesting nickname, who becomes a slave of media mechanism and „master" of gullible public. He is the protagonist, who has chronologically, with respect to power and popularity, demonstrated his personality. This is reflected in his eccentricity, honesty, confidence, resourcefulness, false morality and treason. I would describe his character as a sort of media monster. Mr. Griffith has offered a brilliant performance.Patricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries is a woman who is torn between loyalty, love and reality. Each monster has to have their creator or at least a discoverer. Her performance is effective. Anthony Franciosa as Joey DePalma is ambitious, capable and somewhat jealous manager. Lee Remick as Betty Lou Fleckum is convincing as a playful majorettes and young temptress. Walter Matthau as Mel Miller is the voice of reason, which obviously was not loud enough.This is a one man show. The main protagonist has, unfortunately, become bigger than the story itself, which at the end becomes boring and monotonous.

A Face in the Crowd is about the rise of television personality called Lonesome Rhodes played by Andy Griffiths. We first meet him in jail. He is discovered by a producer played by Patricia Neal, who sets him on the road to stardom.His appeal is that he is "authentic", a real man of the people. He talks like them, he knows what they like and what they don't like. He soon rises in popularity and even more sinister, his influence grows. Politicians soon appear on his TV show, eager to be seen with him. The power and the fame goes to his head.Apart from Griffiths, who is amazing in this, look out for a young Lee Remick, Anthony Franciosa and Walter Matthau. Patricia Neal is great as the woman who realises that she has created a monster.She is the first to spot what lurks beneath the easy going facade.Bear in mind that this film was released before reality TV and you will be amazed at how prophetic it is. The film also touches on the dangers of populism and how a demagogue can poison political debate via the medium of television. It also demonstrates how fleeting TV fame can be. Please watch this film. It may be a black and white movie from the 1950s , but it has so much to say about our culture in the 21st century.

***SPOILERS*** Years ahead of its time movie in how the American public can be manipulated, like it is today, by a smooth talking demigod who uses the electronic media of radio & televising to fool it into thinking that he or she, with women now so prominent in US politics,is the greatest kindest and most of all righteous person that ever walked the face of the universe. That's until feeling invincible as well as all powerful he slips up and is exposed like the main character of the movie Larry Lonesome Rhodes, Andy Griffith, and forced against his will to face the hard reality, or Karma, of his sleazy and immoral actions.Discovered at a jail house drunk tank by local radio personality Marcia Jeffries, Patricia Neal,in rural Arkansas the home of the former Prsident of the United States William Jefferson "Slick Willie" Clinton Larry right away with his boyish good looks so impressed her in his folksy delivery and skill of playing the guitar the Marcia quickly saw in him a combination of a Will Rogers and Hank Williams and puts him on the radio as soon as he dried himself out. Not at first interested in his new found fame Larry or Lonesome soon discovered that he can get people to buy products as well as later elect politicians by just putting in a good word for them on his talk & country & western music hillbilly radio/TV show. The people including Marcia that are behind Lonesome's incredible rise in the TV ratings and popularity never once notice that he was anything but the lovable country bumpkin that he made himself out to be but a Frankenstein monster!***SPOILERS*** IT was in fact Marcia who had fallen in love with the big jerk who was hurt in the most personal way by Lonesome dropping her for this young teenage chickadee the baton twirling Betty Lou Fleckum, Lee Remick, whom he also dropped after he got, as in with so many other women in his life, tired of her. Seething with both hatred and revenge as well as feeling hurt & deserted Marcia planned to show the real Lonesome Rhodes to the public, who are just crazy about him, for what he really is. And this came on rating week or sweeps for TV & radio with tens of millions of his fans and admirers tuning in to see and hear their hero.Like the saying goes "It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it" and Marcia's exposer of Lonesome, when he thought no one was listening in, was anything but pretty. Within minutes of the big show going off the air thousands of outraged listeners as well as it's sponsors, by canceling their sponsorship of his show, showed Lonesome just what they think about him! Not quit getting the picture in how badly he screwed himself up Lonesome in his rage to get the person who left the mike on when the shows credits were rolling down the TV screen was shocked to find out that the person that he trusted the most, even though he treated her like dirt, who was responsible for his sudden downfall was non other then Marcia Jeffries! What I got from the ending is that Lonesome Rhodes was so popular that the millions who tuned into his show didn't at the time bother to turn it off in being so impressed by it! Even in the last minute or so when it was going off the air which in the end made the greatest impact, in seeing or hearing what a low life creep he really was, on them!

Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) is the host of the radio show "A Face in the Crowd" for a regional Arkansas station KGRK. She goes to the local jail of Tomahawk County to talk to the incarcerated. Among others, she finds the charming drunk Larry Rhodes (Andy Griffith). She puts him on the air and he gathers a following as "Lonesome" Rhodes. Together they go and hit it big in Memphis, not just in music but as an advertising pitch man.This is sold as Elia Kazan's next great discovery after Marlon Brando and James Dean. Andy Griffith's does great in his film debut, but it's nothing quite so revolutionary. The story has quite a bit of bite but this is more about Griffith. He plays it really big. If there is any minor problem, there is something theatrical to it all that isn't quite real. He's definitely playing a role whether he's singing, or talking big, or laughing, or drunk acting. Part of that is the fact that the Lonesome character is actually play acting himself. He's a horrible drunk at his heart. If Griffith could put more vulnerability into his character, I think Lonesome would be a much more compelling character.