re: #6 silverdolphin

A Face in the Crowd showcases Andy Griffith’s true talent as an actor. And the film was eerily prescient about the linkage of entertainment and politics. The film was shunned from awards consideration because director Elia Kazan had egregiously dropped dime on Hollywood contemporaries during the HUAC hearings a few years earlier. But Griffith more than deserved an Oscar nomination, though he probably still would have lost to Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai.

If you ever see A Face in the Crowd pop up on TCM, check it out. Griffith ain’t no Sheriff Andy Taylor in this.