Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!leeper From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: A Great Movie Message-ID: <1336@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 06:20:47 EST Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1336 Posted: Tue Oct 29 06:20:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 06:41:08 EST References: <443@npois.UUCP> <1462@videovax.UUCP> <10796@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 27 > >When you've been a film buff as long as I have, it's a rare >and welcome event to see a great film for the first time. >It's even rarer to see a film you'd hardly heard of, one >that has almost no recognition as a classic, and have it >jump immediately into your all-time ten best list. I saw a >movie like that last Wednesday. Its title is "A Face in the >Crowd". > This is one of a number of very good, very bitter films of the fifties. Lonesome Rhodes is based somewhat on Arthur Godfrey, though the latter did not go in for politics. You did not mention that the film also introduces Lee Remick as a teenager whom Rhodes marries. The problem with the film is that the ending is a little too easy and pat. I'd like to see FACE IN THE CROWD shown more, but broadcasters seem to think that it lacks appeal. If you want to watch for another film of similar stature, that is almost forgotten, watch for a film on TV called THE BIG CARNIVAL. In theaters it was called ACE IN THE HOLE. It is the story of how reporter takes a relatively minor story -- a man trapped in a cave -- and cynically blows it up to a story of national importance. Kirk Douglas stars, Billy Wilder directs. Also watch for the only slightly better known PATHS OF GLORY, directed by Kubrick. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper