"Less for What It Reveals About the President Than for What It Says About the Rest of Us"

"The problem, as diagnosed by The New York Times' Bosley Crowther, was that audiences found Rhodes unbelievable. The public, he wrote, would never be snowed that easily—they would be 'finished with him' before a real-life Rhodes could do nearly so much damage.                    "Time, of course, would prove Crowther wrong and the filmmakers right. Though the film arrived just as television was saturating the country—in 1950, fewer than 10 percent of American households had a set; by the end of the decade, nearly 90 percent did—the two men intuited how susceptible the American public would be to this form of mass communication and the ways it could be used to corrupt the nation's politics." 

Jake Tapper at The Atlantic connects A Face in the Crowd to Donald Trump.