A Face in the Crowd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Face_in_the_Crowd_%28film%29
***A Face in the Crowd***
Wasn’t the character “Lonesome Rhodes” based on real life folksy commedian John Henry Faulk?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072977/
I remember Faulk eventually ended upon HEE HAW.