7.6 / 10
(262 votes)
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
United States of America
Drama
125 minutes
1957
Elia Kazan
Newtown Productions,
Warner Bros. Pictures

1939
7.5

1928
8.0

1966
8.1

1953
7.9

1968
7.8

1961
8.0

1958
7.5

1951
7.5

1931
8.1

1952
7.9

2000
8.1

2004
7.2

1945
7.7

1954
7.9

1995
8.1

1963
8.1

1993
8.6

1960
8.1

1957
8.2

1999
7.4