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Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: No Votes Hits: 87 Comments: 0 A Face In The Crowd - Original Trailer A Face In The Crowd - Original Trailer SPOILER ALERT. The meteoric popularity of Arthur Godfrey was allegedly the basis of the 1957 drama Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith makes a spectacular film debut as Lonesome Rhodes, a philosophical country-western singer discovered in a tanktown jail by television talent coordinator Patricia Neal and her assistant Walter Matthau. They decide that Rhodes is worthy of a TV guest spot, the result being that the gangly, aw-shucks entertainer becomes an overnight sensation. As he ascends to stardom, Rhodes attracts fans, sponsors and endorsements by the carload, and soon he is the most powerful and influential entertainer on the airwaves. Beloved by his audience, Rhodes reveals himself to his intimates as a scheming, power-hungry manipulator, with Machiavellian political aspirations. He uses everyone around him, coldly discarding anyone who might impede his climb to the top (one such victim is sexy baton-twirler Lee Remick, likewise making her film debut). Just when it seems that there's no stopping Rhodes' megalomania, his mentor and ex-lover Neal exposes this Idol of Millions as the rat that he is. She arranges to switch on the audio during the closing credits of Rhodes' TV program, allowing the whole nation to hear the grinning, waving Rhodes characterize them as "suckers" and "stupid idiots." Instantly, Rhodes' popularity rating plummets to zero. As he drunkenly wanders around his penthouse apartment, still not fully comprehending what has happened to him, Rhodes is deserted by the very associates who, hours earlier, were willing to ask "how high?" when he yelled "jump". Written by Budd Schulberg, Face in the Crowd was not a success, possibly because it hit so close to home with idol-worshipping TV fans. Its reputation has grown in the intervening years, not only because of its value as a film but because of the novelty of seeing the traditionally easygoing Andy Griffith as so vicious and manipulative a character as Lonesome Rhodes. Andy Griffith - Lonesome Rhodes Patricia Neal - Marcia Jeffries Anthony Franciosa - Joey Kiely Walter Matthau - Mel Miller Lee Remick - Betty Lou Fleckum Kay Medford - First Mrs. Rhodes Rod Brasfield - Beanie Charles Irving - Mr. Luffler Howard I. Smith - J.B. Jeffries Paul McGrath - Macey Alexander Kirkland - Jim Collier Big Jeff Bess - Sheriff Hosmer Henry Sharp - Abe Steiner Suzanne Ballard John Bliss Kim Chan - Radio Announcer Faye Emerson - Herself Betty Furness - Herself Virginia Graham - Herself Burl Ives - Himself Bunny McCallum Marshall Neilan - Senator Fuller Lois Nettleton Amanda Robinson John Cameron Swayze - Himself Rip Torn Mike Wallace - Himself Percy Waram - Col. Hollister Walter Winchell - Himself Sandra Wirth - baton twirler User: BoogeBoogieston Oct 11, 2009 3:55 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: Ok Hits: 140 Comments: 2 Original Taking Of Pelham 123 Original Taking Of Pelham 123 The CLASSIC ending to the equally CLASSIC 1974 crime thriller 'The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three'. Walter Matthau stars as Garber, the subway dispatcher who is played by Denzel Washington in the current 2009 remake of the same name. User: BattleShip_Ron Jun 20, 2009 10:17 PM
Headline Tag: Celebrities Rating: Amazing Hits: 1962 Comments: 1 Grumpy Old Men Outtakes Grumpy Old Men Outtakes "Looks like Chucks taking the skinboat to Tunatown!" User: reacharoundher Dec 14, 2008 5:21 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: Stinker Hits: 445 Comments: 1 20 Most Funny Medical Quotes 20 Most Funny Medical Quotes 1. “Have you ever been in therapy? No? You should try it. It’s like a really easy game show where the correct answer to every question is: ‘Because of my mother.’” - Robin Greenspan 2. “After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, ‘Maybe life isn’t for everyone’.” - Larry Brown. 3. “The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable.” - Paul Dean. 4. “If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.” - Dr WC Heuper (1954) 5. “As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, ‘Relax, you’re not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients’, but the another kept reminding me, ‘Howard, you are a veterinarian!’” -Dick Wilson. 6. “My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.” - Walter Matthau. 7. “A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a labotomy.” - Joan Rivers. 8. “She got her looks from her father: He’s a plastic surgeon.” -Groucho Marx. 9. “For the majority of people smoking has a beneficial effect.” - Dr Ian MacDonald (1963) 10. “Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.” - Samuel Goldwyn. 11. “I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn’t diagnose a decapitation.” - Jeffrey Bernard 12. “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.” - Steve Martin. 13. “No-one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.” - Kin Hubbard. 14. “There must be something to acupuncture.After all, you never see any sick porcupines!” - Bob Goddard. 15. “The operation was a complete success, but the patient died of something else.” - John Chiene 16. “I’m not feeling very well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.” - Groucho Marx 17. “A psychiatrist is a man who goes to a strip club and watches the audience.”- Merv Stockwood. 18. “Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won’t cure a cold.” - Jerry Vale 19. “I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridges” - Spike Milligan 20. “The art of medicine is in amusing a patient while nature affects the cure.” User: infectedgenes Dec 9, 2008 11:44 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Ok Hits: 549 Comments: 0 Piotr's Voice Impressions 5 Piotr's Voice Impressions 5 New Voice Impressions featuring: Paul Winfield, Peter Lorre, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael Caine, Walter Matthau, Johnny Carson, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Walken and Kermit the Frog. Aug 10, 2007 8:56 PM
 
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