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Wise Blood is a 1979 black comedy drama film directed by John Huston and starring Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Amy Wright, Harry Dean Stanton, and Ned Beatty. It is based on the 1952 novel Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor.
Feb 17, 1980 · Wise Blood: Directed by John Huston. With Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton. Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.
After returning home from World War II, uneducated and irreligious U.S. Army veteran Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) decides to make his way in the world by impersonating a priest and...
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Wise Blood. In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity.
The novel concerns a returning World War II veteran who, haunted by a life-long crisis of faith, resolves to form an anti-religious ministry in an eccentric, fictionalized city in the Southern United States after finding his family homestead abandoned without a trace.
Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.
Oct 20, 2010 · Synopsis. When aimless veteran Hazel Motes returns to the South with nothing better to do, he becomes an evangelist. Hazel teams up with an older preacher, a veteran of the revival circuit who fakes blindness to win over converts, and the older man convinces Hazel to actually blind himself in order to "see the light.
