Did the movie A Face in the Crowd predict Trumps rise?brPolitical Satire.brAndy Griffith, in an interview with Morning Exchange in 1972, talks about his role in the film, A Face In The Crowd. He plays a character named Lonesome .brWhen philosophical countrywestern singer Larry Lonesome Rhodes is discovered in the local lock-up by television talent coordinator Marcia Jeffries, she .