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A Face in the CrowdWhen radio producer Neal comes across imprisoned down-and-out guitar-playing Griffith she is gripped by his unique homespun philosophy. She promptly puts him on the air, and he turns into an overnight celebrity whose influence soon stretches from coast to coast, on radio as well as television. As he becomes more and more self-obsessed and uses his influence to his own advantage, she fears for the worst. The first half of A Face in the Crowd is genuinely intriguing and competently handled by Kazan, but it quickly degenerates into moralizing diatribe. Network said it all again, but with more sophistication.
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