MORE ON FILM: Underseen

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Just saw this for the first time in a few years and it's still a great, highly underseen movie.

Late 1950's Kazan film starring Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes," a singing hobo who is "discovered" and rises meteorically to great fame and fortune as he becomes an icon during the early days of Television. But fortunes change and Lonesome's fall is as dramatic as his rise.

Also with PAtricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa and Lee Remick.

This is one of those films that is critically acclaimed, yet was not popular at the box office. People just did not like seeing Andy Griffith playing a sociopath and also did not like a satirical movie about the power of early television.