Seems like a good day to repost this….
This is one of my favorite films. It’s also amazingly timely now, 53 years after it was made. It could almost be called “The Glenn Beck Story.”
If you only think of Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, you really should see this movie. He is amazing. I can’t believe he didn’t get an Oscar nomination for this performance. It also features a stellar performance by Patricia Neal, at her peak, and introduces Lee Remick in her first film.
Here is the original trailer:
There is also a great article in “Vanity Fair” about this film. Here is the link:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/03/wolcott200703
Lost in the 21st Century 
I am glad it has not been remade with Nic Cage!
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Scott, that one, along with The Sweet Smell of Success, are two of my favorite movies about the vagaries of human nature.
A Face in the Crowd is just brilliant — and terrifying.
And since seeing it, I can never stop saying, “Vanda-bilt foughty-fough” like Walter Matthau in the movie.
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