1957 epic motion picture directed by Elia Kazan
Vitajex, an innocuous dietary supplement. A frenetic montage of Rhodes's hyperbolic ads for Vitajex is one of the film's most memorable sequences, revealing the gullibility of the American public to a persuasive con-artist. In the tradition of classical tragedy, Rhodes is undone by his thirst for power and by Jeffries who, despite building his stardom, becomes so fed up that she allows him to expose his contempt for his fans on the air.
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television as a corrupting influence on the masses.
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Griffith's portrayal of Lonesome Rhodes, an Arkansas hayseed who becomes an unscrupulous TV star, was groundbreaking for its look at television as a corrupting influence on the masses.
THE MOVIE CAST:
* Andy Griffith ... Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes
* Patricia Neal ... Marcia Jeffries
* Anthony Franciosa ... Joey DePalma
* Walter Matthau ... Mel Miller
* Lee Remick ... Betty Lou Fleckum
* Bennett Cerf, Faye Emerson, Betty Furness, Virginia Graham, Earl Wilson, and Walter Winchell in cameo appearances as themselves
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