Dir. Elia Kazan. Starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau Here’s my Slate pitch about A Face in the Crowd: its best piece is its greatest weakness. By making Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes an Arkansas drifter, the film can call upon the services of Andy Griffith, who is absolutely electrifying. However, by making Lonesome Rhodes a Southerner,… Read More A Face in the Crowd (1957)