She assured him that there was nothing wrong with being afraid - that he wasn""t a coward or a liar, and that he should rid himself of his fears: "Because when all the smoke has cleared and everyone""s through chanting your name, it""s just gonna be us.[Note: The film was eerily reminiscent of the same year""sA Face in the Crowd (1957)by director Elia Kazan, in which Andy Griffith also portrayed a meteoric rise by a country-hick, guitar-playing singer in jail who became an instant mass-media star and power-hungry political idol on television." After his chain-saw and sawed-off shotgun were confiscated, Ash was led in shackles to the castle of Lord Arthur (Marcus Gilbert), where he was thought to be helping another enslaved man, Arthur""s warring enemy Duke Henry the Red (Richard Grove), Duke of Shael, Lord of the Northlands.Jolson was given the lead after Eddie Cantor and George Jessel denied Warners"" offer to play the title role.