

POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls … he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!
May 29, 1957
2h 5m
EN
Elia Kazan
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.

Andy Griffith
Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes

Patricia Neal
Marcia Jeffries

Anthony Franciosa
Joey DePalma

Walter Matthau
Mel Miller


Budd Schulberg
271

Lee Remick
Betty Lou Fleckum

Percy Waram
General Haynesworth

Paul McGrath
Macey

Rod Brasfield
Beanie

Marshall Neilan
Senator Worthington Fuller

Alexander Kirkland
Jim Collier
Newtown Productions
N/A

Warner Bros. Pictures
US