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SleeplessinSoCal

(9,668 posts) Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:18 PM Oct 7

"A Face In the Crowd" by Budd Schulberg

Directed by Elia Kazan.

Info here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/?ref_=ext_shr

There is so much credence given to this film as it reflects our culture's vulnerability to the con.

If any DUer knows how to edit video clips, I'd love to see a Shitler diatribe followed by Patricia Neal (Marcia) pleading with Andy Griffith (Lonesome Rhodes) to "JUMP!!! ... Get out of my life! Get out of everyone's life!!"

Maybe it will strike the right nerve.

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"A Face In the Crowd" by Budd Schulberg (Original Post) SleeplessinSoCal Oct 7 OP

That movie always gave me the creeps! buzzycrumbhunger Oct 7 #1

Especially the final scene Xavier Breath Oct 7 #2

It really sticks with you. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 7 #3

I have my own copy. Andy's best work. n/t brewens Oct 7 #4

buzzycrumbhunger

(895 posts)

1. That movie always gave me the creeps!

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:22 PM

Oct 7

… yet somehow, it never occurred to me how current it is. Yikes.

Xavier Breath

(5,003 posts)

2. Especially the final scene

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:26 PM

Oct 7

where she's riding away in the cab and you can hear him yelling from the balcony, wailing like some kind of desperate, wounded animal.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,668 posts)

3. It really sticks with you.

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:33 PM

Oct 7

If you look in the IMDB link you can see various quotes that make you cringe. It is a diatribe on the TV business as much it is about our vulnerability.

brewens

(15,359 posts)

4. I have my own copy. Andy's best work. n/t

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2024, 08:36 PM

Oct 7

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