Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
- new york city
- southern usa
- politics
- arkansas
- rise and fall
- memphis
- tennessee
- fame
- black and white
- based on short story
- hick
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Andy Griffith
Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
Patricia Neal
Marcia Jeffries
Anthony Franciosa
Joey DePalma
Walter Matthau
Mel Miller
- Lee Remick — Betty Lou Fleckum
- Percy Waram — General Haynesworth
- Paul McGrath — Macey
- Rod Brasfield — Beanie
- Marshall Neilan — Senator Worthington Fuller
- Alexander Kirkland — Jim Collier
- Charles Irving — Mr. Luffler
- Howard Smith — J.B. Jeffries
- Kay Medford — First Mrs. Rhodes
- Big Jeff Bess — Sheriff Big Jeff Bess
- Henry Sharp — Abe Steiner
- Directed
- Elia Kazan
- Written
- Budd Schulberg
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 273 ratings
- Studio
- Newtown Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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