What is A Face in the Crowd / Wild River about?

A FACE IN THE CROWD, 1957, Warner Bros., 125 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Andy Griffith is mesmerizing as an Arkansas vagrant-turned-television-sensation in Kazan’s provocative examination of fame, fraud, and the media’s transition from radio to television. WILD RIVER, 1960, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Always-excellent Montgomery Clift plays Chuck Glover, a young man sent to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. Deep-seated racial tension emerges when it is suggested that black laborers work on the construction of the dam, and complications only build when Chuck becomes romantically entangled with a local widow. “Kazan’s finest and deepest film!” – Dave Kehr Discussion in between films with actress Patricia Neal, moderated by film historian Foster Hirsch. Patricia Neal will be signing her autobiography “Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life” at 7:00 PM in the lobby.

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What is A Face in the Crowd / Wild River about?: A FACE IN THE CROWD, 1957, Warner Bros., 125 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Andy Griffith is mesmerizing as an Arkansas vagrant-turned-television-sensation in Kazan’s provocative examination of fame, fraud, and the media’s transition from radio to television.
WILD RIVER, 1960, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Always-excellent Montgomery Clift plays Chuck Glover, a young man sent to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. Deep-seated racial tension emerges when it is suggested that black laborers work on the construction of the dam, and complications only build when Chuck becomes romantically entangled with a local widow. “Kazan’s finest and deepest film!” – Dave Kehr Discussion in between films with actress Patricia Neal, moderated by film historian Foster Hirsch. Patricia Neal will be signing her autobiography “Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life” at 7:00 PM in the lobby.