Wise Blood
Directors
John Huston
Actors
- Brad Dourif
- John Huston
- Dan Shor
Credits: 9
Summary
Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.
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US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...