Saw this for the first time in 2008 when Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber were big time media names. If you've seen the movie, you'll understand how extra-chilling that might be.
Also, Face in the Crowd makes a great double bill with All the King's Men, the original, of course. Throw in Born Yesterday and you have a cinematic civics class with some great talent... Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Andy and Pat.
I think I just realized what I'm doing for 4rth of July...
Walter Matthau is pretty great in it too. Andy Griffith was a fine actor, but on television he made it look so easy, we tend to forget. Rest in Peace, dear man.
A fine movie. Not so fond of the teevee stuff after, the Mayberry vision of a rural South with no African Americans. Just homespun sweetness and goofiness, the city (where millions of blacks struggled to find freedom during the Great Migration) represented only by interlopers coming into town causing nothing but trouble... a lovely little vacuum. Not Griffith's creation, but he sure did ride that train. By the time it went out, the year MLK and RFK were assassinated, it was still #1 so CBS kept the hermetically sealed vibe going with a spinoff.
It's difficult to find since it was a '70s TV movie, but everyone should seek out "Pray for the Wildcats." (Put it on your DVR wish list - it should show up eventually.) Griffith plays a homicidal corporate exec, and he's perfect in that role.
Not so great acting-wise (but great bad-acting-wise) are William Shatner and Angie Dickenson, and the guy who played the creepy, blond-froed cop in Earthquake.
I think I just realized what I'm doing for 4rth of July...
Not so great acting-wise (but great bad-acting-wise) are William Shatner and Angie Dickenson, and the guy who played the creepy, blond-froed cop in Earthquake.
Andy Griffith, RIP