What is A Face in the Crowd / Hud about?

A FACE IN THE CROWD, 1957, Warner Bros., 125 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. A Masterpiece that becomes more poignant every year. Andy Griffith is mesmerizing as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, an Arkansas vagrant-turned-television-sensation in Kazan’s provocative examination of fame, fraud, and the media’s transition from radio to television. Also as captivating is Patricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries, the naïve Sarah Lawrence-attendee who is the first to fall under Larry’s fraudulent spell. HUD, 1963, Paramount, 112 min. Dir. Martin Ritt. Paul Newman delivers one of his finest performances as a modern-day cowboy whose hellraising, playboy ways put him into direct conflict with father Melvyn Douglas and sharp-tongued housekeeper, Patricia Neal.

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What is A Face in the Crowd / Hud about?: A FACE IN THE CROWD, 1957, Warner Bros., 125 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. A Masterpiece that becomes more poignant every year. Andy Griffith is mesmerizing as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, an Arkansas vagrant-turned-television-sensation in Kazan’s provocative examination of fame, fraud, and the media’s transition from radio to television. Also as captivating is Patricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries, the naïve Sarah Lawrence-attendee who is the first to fall under Larry’s fraudulent spell.
HUD, 1963, Paramount, 112 min. Dir. Martin Ritt. Paul Newman delivers one of his finest performances as a modern-day cowboy whose hellraising, playboy ways put him into direct conflict with father Melvyn Douglas and sharp-tongued housekeeper, Patricia Neal.