Saturday Night Distraction

8p EST, TCM-

"A Face In The Crowd" ****

Years before he was typecast as the kindly sheriff of Mayberry Andy Griffith made an unforgettable screen debut in this blistering film from director Elia Kazan and writer Budd Schulberg. Griffith stars as a cracker-barrel philosopher who becomes an overnight TV sensation, thanks to producer Patricia Neal and her assistant Walter Matthau. Little do they realize that Griffith's down-home wit and backwater jokes mask a much darker reality.