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Verenigde Staten
Drama
125 minuten

geregisseerd door Elia Kazan
met Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal en Anthony Franciosa

Larry Rhodes is een zwerver die op straat zingt om aan zijn geld te komen. Hij wordt op een dag ontdekt door Marcia Jeffries, waarna hij uitgroeit tot een beroemdheid. Hierdoor krijgt hij steeds meer macht, een nieuw verschijnsel voor Rhodes. Hij wordt steeds egoïstischer en overweegt zijn macht te gaan misbruiken.

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imdb.com/title/tt0050371/
User Rating: 8.1/10   4,420 votes

Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Release Date: May 10, 2005


Director: Elia Kazan

Description
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More timely now, perhaps, than when it was first released in 1957, Elia Kazan"s overheated political melodrama explores the dangerous manipulative power of pop culture. It exposes the underside of Capra-corn populism, as exemplified in the optimistic fable of grassroots punditry Meet John Doe. In Kazan"s account, scripted by Budd Schulberg, the common-man pontificator (Andy Griffith) is no Gary Cooper-style aw-shucks paragon. Promoted to national fame as a folksy TV idol by radio producer Patricia Neal, Griffith"s Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes turns out to be a megalomaniacal rat bastard. 

The film turns apocalyptic as Rhodes exploits his power to sway the masses, helping to elect a reactionary presidential candidate. The parodies of television commercials and opinion polling were cutting edge in their day (Face in the Crowd was the Network of the Eisenhower era), and there are some startling, near-documentary sequences shot on location in Arkansas. An extraordinary supporting cast (led by Walter Matthau and Lee Remick) helps keep the energy level high, even when the satire turns shrill and unpersuasive in the final reel. There"s an interesting parallel in Tim Robbins"s snide pseudodocumentary Bob Roberts: both these pictures have almost as much contempt for the lemmings in the audience as for the manipulative monsters who herd them over the cliff.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 6.21 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 125 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English | French | Spanish



DISC FEATURES:

#  New documentary: Facing the Past. An all new retrospective with new interviews with stars Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and screenwriter Budd Schulberg.
# Theatrical trailer.


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