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Before [[Andy Griffith]] became a television legend playing a likable small-town sheriff, he portrayed a completely different type of celebrity in '''''A Face in the Crowd''''', a dark look at the corruptability of sudden fame and power. In his film debut, Griffith plays Larry Rhodes, a rural drunk, drifter and country singer who becomes an overnight success when radio station promoter Marcia Jeffries ([[Patricia Neal]]) and her assistant Mel Miller ([[Walter Matthau]]), who put him on the air. Behind the scenes, he turns into a power-hungry monster who must be exposed.