Overview
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.
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Based on
Based on the novel Wise Blood
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Setting
Set in Georgia
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Music
Music by Alex North
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Gerry Fisher
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Flannery O'ConnorNovel
- Benedict FitzgeraldScreenplay
- Michael FitzgeraldScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 24, 1979
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Brad DourifHazel Motes
Dan ShorEnoch Emory
Amy WrightSabbath Lily
Harry Dean StantonAsa Hawks
Mary Nell SantacroceLandlady
Ned BeattyHoover Shoates
John HustonGrandfather
William HickeyPreacher- J.L. ParkerKarl
- Marvin SappRaymond
- Richard EarleJakob Winslow
- Herb KossoverJacob Wood
- Betty Lou GrooverLeora Watts
- John TyndallLoki Martinson
- Gillaaron HouckStranger #1
- Philip MixerStranger #2
- Sharon JohnsonStranger #3
Joe DorseyStranger #4- Stratton LeopoldDepressed Human
- Leonard HolmesStranger #5
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