If anyone is interested in reading, I wrote a review of A Face in the Crowd on my blog.
Here's the link: http://guywithamovieblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-face-in-crowd.html
I'd love to hear any and all comments!
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Who would you have cast in place of Andy Griffith?
shareGoing with choices the same age (or very close to it) as Griffith, I think all of these actors could have been far better in the role:
Paul Newman
George Kennedy
Hal Holbrook
Donald O'Connor
Jack Lemmon
Peter Sellers
Harry Dean Stanton
Robert Shaw
George C. Scott
Of course, I think Griffith could have been better, too, if he had been reeled in a bit more by a director who knew the limitations of his leading man.
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Sorry, sure can't say that I agree with you, especially on guys like Holbrook, O'Connor ( O'Connor? ), Lemmon, Sellers, Scott or Shaw. Probably not Newman, either. Perhaps Kennedy or Stanton might be able to pull it off but still not as well as I feel Andy Griffith did.
P.S. I don't get your ' Started, but Never Finished ' list. Are you saying that these films weren't interesting enough for you to watch all the way through?
I think they're all better actors (some are far, far better) than Griffith, so I don't think they'd have a problem with the role of Lonesome.
O'Connor might be a stretch. I've only seen him in Singin' in the Rain (which I watched twice recently) and he really impressed me.
P.S. I don't get your ' Started, but Never Finished ' list. Are you saying that these films weren't interesting enough for you to watch all the way through?