Deserving of his Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures nomination in 1958, by the Directors Guild of America (USA), Elia Kazan produced the classic about the responsibilities, consequences and temptations of media power. In this film, one mans voice changed lives, for better and for worse. I felt for the characters, both big and small, as they fell to the influence of the man (Andy Griffith) they knew as Lonesome Rhodes. I appreciate how this 1957 film showed the changes to each character attributed to the fame the new celebrity. The greed enhanced agent, the naivete of a love interest, and the ignorance of Rhodes himself in not seeing that he had turned into the very thing he started his career by voicing his objections too. This is a grand story of creating a monster that would make Mary Shelley proud. I could have done without Walter Mathow's dry narration of the films underlying messages, because Kazan has done a good job of communicating the story nicely. Including issues like racism, commercialism, celebrity, pride, power and payback, A Face in the Crowd sends a great warning to every media consumer.