A Face In The Crowd (1957) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

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Country of origin:: USA, 1957
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Item number:: 9047456
UPC/EAN:: 5050629355338
Release date:: 6.5.2019
Series:: Criterion Collection
Genre:: Drama
Playing time ca.:: 126 Min.
Director:: Elia Kazan
Actor:: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walther Matthau, Lee Remick
Film music:: Tom Glazer
German title:: Das Gesicht in der Menge (1957)
Language:: Englisch
Picture:: Widescreen

A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative, reactionary monster she has created. Directed by Elia Kazan from a screenplay by Budd Schulberg, this incisive satire features an extraordinary debut screen performance by Griffith, who brandishes his charm in an uncharacteristically sinister role. Though the film was a flop on its initial release, subsequent generations have marveled at its eerily prescient diagnosis of the toxic intimacy between media and politics in American life.

Specials

New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

New interview with Ron Briley, author of The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan

New interview with Andy Griffith biographer Evan Dalton Smith

Facing the Past, a 2005 documentary featuring actors Griffith, Patricia Neal, and Anthony Franciosa; screenwriter Budd Schulberg; and film scholars Leo Braudy and Jeff Young

Trailer

PLUS: An essay by critic April Wolfe, excerpts from director Elia Kazan’s introduction to the film’s published screenplay, and a 1957 New York Times Magazine profile of Griffith