United States
1979
105 minutes
Color
1.78:1
English
470
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. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O’Connor’s pages, Huston’s Wise Blood is an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer’s vision.
| Hazel Motes | Brad Dourif |
| Hoover Shoates | Ned Beatty |
| Asa Hawks | Harry Dean Stanton |
| Enoch Emory | Dan Shor |
| Sabbath Lily | Amy Wright |
| Landlady | Mary Nell Santacroce |
| Preacher | William Hickey |
| Grandfather | John Huston |
| Director | John Huston |
| From the novel by | Flannery O’Connor |
| Producer | Michael Fitzgerald and Kathy Fitzgerald |
| Assistant director | Tom Shaw |
| Associate producer | Hans Brockmann |
| Music | Alex North |
| Editing | Roberto Silvi |
| Screenplay | Benedict Fitzgerald and Michael Fitzgerald |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher and B.S.C. |
If you’ve seen John Huston’s wild Wise Blood, then you might want to know more about Flannery O’Connor, from whose debut novel the film is faithfully adapted. A good place to start would be Brad Gooch’s http://www.amazon.com/Flannery-Life-OConnor-Brad-Gooch/dp/0316000663 . . .
It was going to take a wise man indeed to adapt Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, and as always John Huston was up to the literary challenge. According to critics, the translation is a rousing success. In http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/film/74311/wise-blood-dvd-review . . .
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