

"POWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls … he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood!"
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.
Director: Elia Kazan

Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes

Marcia Jeffries

Joey DePalma

Mel Miller

Betty Lou Fleckum

General Haynesworth

Macey

Beanie

Senator Worthington Fuller

Jim Collier