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SleeplessinSoCal

(10,241 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:18 PM Oct 2024

"A Face In the Crowd" by Budd Schulberg

Directed by Elia Kazan.

Info here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/?ref_=ext_shr

There is so much credence given to this film as it reflects our culture's vulnerability to the con.

If any DUer knows how to edit video clips, I'd love to see a Shitler diatribe followed by Patricia Neal (Marcia) pleading with Andy Griffith (Lonesome Rhodes) to "JUMP!!! ... Get out of my life! Get out of everyone's life!!"

Maybe it will strike the right nerve.

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"A Face In the Crowd" by Budd Schulberg (Original Post) SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2024 OP
That movie always gave me the creeps! buzzycrumbhunger Oct 2024 #1
Especially the final scene Xavier Breath Oct 2024 #2
It really sticks with you. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2024 #3
I have my own copy. Andy's best work. n/t brewens Oct 2024 #4

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,280 posts)
1. That movie always gave me the creeps!
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:22 PM
Oct 2024

… yet somehow, it never occurred to me how current it is. Yikes.

Xavier Breath

(6,031 posts)
2. Especially the final scene
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:26 PM
Oct 2024

where she's riding away in the cab and you can hear him yelling from the balcony, wailing like some kind of desperate, wounded animal.

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,241 posts)
3. It really sticks with you.
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:33 PM
Oct 2024

If you look in the IMDB link you can see various quotes that make you cringe. It is a diatribe on the TV business as much it is about our vulnerability.

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