Wise Blood ( Die Weisheit des Blutes ) ( John Huston's Wise Blood )

Wise Blood (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Weisheit des Blutes
Alternate Title: John Huston's Wise Blood
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Huston

Written By:
Flannery O'Connor
Benedict Fitzgerald

Actors:
Brad Dourif ..... Hazel Motes
John Huston ..... Grandfather (as Jhon Huston)
Dan Shor ..... Enoch Emory
Harry Dean Stanton ..... Asa Hawks
Amy Wright ..... Sabbath Lily
Mary Nell Santacroce ..... Landlady
Ned Beatty ..... Hoover Shoates
William Hickey ..... Preacher
J.L. Parker
Marvin Sapp
Richard Earle
Herb Kossover
Betty Lou Groover
John Tyndall
Gillaaron Houck

Synopsis:

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.

Set in the Deep South during the postwar era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as an aimless veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher (for a questionable concern called "The Church Wihout Christ") principally because he hasn't anything better lined up. Dourif links up with a veteran of the hellfire-and-brimstone circuit, who for business purposes pretends to be blind. The older man persuades Dourif to blind himself for real so that he can truly "see the light" (yes, the movie is that weird). Director Huston, himself, appears as Dourif's grandfather. Adapted from the one-of-a-kind novel by Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood was a noble experiment but a box-office failure-though, to be fair, Huston never set out to make a blockbuster from O'Connor's offbeat tale.

Hazel Motes, a discharged Army veteran returns to his home to discover it empty and disintegrating. In the city he establishes his Church of Truth without Christ, but his burden of guilt becomes too heavy (a legacy of a hellfire preacher grandfather), and he attempts to precipitate his own salvation.

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