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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: A Great Movie
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 06:20:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 06:20:47 1985
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 >
 >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