Before Andy Griffith became the famously easy-going Sheriff Andy on TV, he shocked movie critics with his over-the-top portrayal of Lonesome Rhodes, the hick troubadour who ended up aspiring to be a right-wing power broker in Elia Kazan’s classic A Face In the Crowd:
R.I.P. Andy
This is a great — and almost completely forgotten — movie. Maybe it was too prescient…