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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 starting his own ...
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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.
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.
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.
An American Masterpiece! 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. John Huston. Flannery O'Connor. Michael Fitzgerald. Benedict Fitzgerald.
Wise Blood is a novel by the American novelist, Flannery O'Connor, who often explored Catholicism through darkly sardonic Southern Gothic stories. This tale in particular can be likened to a modern metaphor of Jesus Christ, the false idols he seeks to destroy being the perception of a distorted Christian faith.
Wise Blood. Directed by John Huston • 1979 • United States. Starring Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton. 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.
Wise Blood - Apple TV. Available on Prime Video, iTunes, Max. 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.
