Wise Blood (1979)

Director:

John Huston

Writers:

Flannery O'Connor (novel)
Benedict Fitzgerald (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 February 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

An American Masterpiece!

Plot:

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Plot Keywords:

Playing Footsie | Black Comedy | Fanaticism | Religion | Based On Novel

Cast

Brad Dourif	...	Hazel Motes
John Huston	...	Grandfather (as Jhon Huston)
Dan Shor	...	Enoch Emory
Harry Dean Stanton	...	Asa Hawks
Amy Wright	...	Sabbath Lily
Mary Nell Santacroce	...	Landlady
Ned Beatty	...	Hoover Shoates
William Hickey	...	Preacher
J.L. Parker
Marvin Sapp
Richard Earle
Herb Kossover
Betty Lou Groover
John Tyndall
Gillaaron Houck

Also Known As:

John Huston's Wise Blood
Ketzer, Der (West Germany)
Weisheit des Blutes, Die (West Germany)

Runtime:

108 min | UK:105 min

Country:

USA | West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | UK:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Macon, Georgia, USA

Company:

Anthea

Quotes:

Hazel: No man with a good car needs to be justified!

Get Clued up and Watch one of Brad's best performances.

Wise Blood is a Drama with a good sense of black humour, it sometimes hits you in the stomach about the D-I-Y religions of the Deep South, or somewhere within the Dixie heartland.

Amy Wright plays a hyper-reilgious weirdo and looks like she is having lots of fun as a female leading role. Brad Dourif is the main character, who is a solider that is honourably discharged from the army and decides to become the man of the world to create a 'Church without Christ, and it does not cost a dime'. This is the first movie I saw with Brad Dourif performing and fell completely in luv with him. With his cool attitude and his Sharp almond-shaped eyes peeping from a fendora hat tilted to one side - you just know that he is gonna be around for a long time, while Actors come and go in Hollywood.

I think he should do more Comedies and leading roles because he does carry movies well and the audience that I have known sits up and pays undivided attention to Brad's spotlight.

It is a strange but fantastic little gem of a movie!!! the cast is full of perfect performers, and satirical scenes (I think one of the minor Actors of the cast dressed as a Mascot kept on getting a good ol' kick up the arse by everybody).

I highly recommend this Movie, it is even brilliant to watch on rainy Sundays. Go watch it.