The read
Scores higher than 84% of the 661 1950s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Ratings
IMDb8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Metacritic72/100
281 audience votes
Key crew
- Elia KazanDirector
- Budd SchulbergScreenplay
- Tom GlazerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Andy GriffithLarry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
- Patricia NealMarcia Jeffries
- Anthony FranciosaJoey DePalma
- Walter MatthauMel Miller
- Lee RemickBetty Lou Fleckum
- Percy WaramGeneral Haynesworth
- Paul McGrathMacey
- Rod BrasfieldBeanie
- Marshall NeilanSenator Worthington Fuller
- Alexander KirklandJim Collier
- Charles IrvingMr. Luffler
- Howard SmithJ.B. Jeffries
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Themes
new york citysouthern usapoliticsarkansasrise and fallmemphis, tennesseefameblack and whitebased on short storyhickpersonality