Andy Griffith makes his film début in this dramatic movie about a country boy who rises to fame, and uses his television show as a gateway to political power. Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau also star in Elia Kazan’s classic set very far from Mayberry.
A Face in the Crowd
Saturday, August 25
Saloon opens @ 6:30 pm / Movie starts @ 7:30 pm
Springer Opera House, 103 10th Street
Tickets: $10 each (click here to purchase online)
A Face in the Crowd is a 1957 film starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg, based on his short story Your Arkansas Traveler.
Election years make it only too evident that our popular culture and electoral politics are symbiotic; A Face in the Crowd was the first to dramatize it. – The Village Voice
