
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.
Lee Remick
Betty Lou Fleckum

Percy Waram
General Haynesworth

Paul McGrath
Macey

Rod Brasfield
Beanie

Marshall Neilan
Senator Worthington Fuller

Alexander Kirkland
Jim Collier