Oct 24, 1979
106 min
Full-HD

Wise Blood (1979)

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.

Category

Comedy Drama

Country

United States of America

Companies

Ithaca Anthea New Line Cinema

Brad Dourif

Hazel Motes

Dan Shor

Enoch Emory

Amy Wright

Sabbath Lily

Harry Dean Stanton

Asa Hawks

Mary Nell Santacroce

Landlady

Ned Beatty

Hoover Shoates

John Huston

Grandfather

William Hickey

Preacher

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