This movie, without question, should be in the AFI's top 100 films. Andy Griffith's performance is nothing short of spectacular, and this film has become so real today.
If you agree, put a post here. Let's see if we can start a petition or something; replace Titanic with this!
Yep.
shareYou are SERIOUSLY kidding, right??? Replace Titanic with THIS? REALLY?
Well, since I am one of the 5 people in the world who never saw Titanic, I guess that's OK.
But only for now until someday I might ever see that movie.
Lucky to have caught this one on TCM, some months ago.
The AFI has an F in it for a reason. I'll just say that. They don't know crap about a good flick if even someone hit their faces hard with the film reels.
I guess if this film got Nationally Film Preserved, it should be good enough for some Academy Awards and to be put into the AFI Top 100. But I dunno about that Top 250 of imdb. That's a pretty rarified list. Might have to think about that some. Besides, them Star Wars fans are pretty nasty about having their films kicked off that list by some old B/W stuff.
Five years later... My hand is raised too!
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
Agreed!
shareAbsolutely.
Frame for frame A Face in The Crowd is easily among the most well-written, directed and acted films ever made.
“Your thinking is untidy, like most so-called thinking today.” (Murder, My Sweet)
Unless the Hollywood establishment has an issue with Elia Kazan - and they sure have a history of it - I would certainly include "A Face in the Crowd" as one that should be included on any of the American Film Institute lists.
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