Wise Blood

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Wise Blood, 1979.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Wise Blood, 1979.

Discharged veteran Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) finds the grave of his grandfather (played by director John Huston), at the family farm, then decides to go to town, early in Wise Blood, 1979, from the Flannery O'Connor novel.

We know that Sabbath Lily (AmyWright), daughter of a phony street preacher, is determined to seduce novice anti-Jesus Christian preacher Hazel (Brad Dourif),in director John Huston's Wise Blood, 1979, from the Flannery O'Connor novel.

On his first day in Taulkinham (really Macon, Georgia) Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif), with new sidekick Enoch (Dan Shor), confronts preacher Hawks (Harry Dean Stanton) and daughter Lily (Amy Wright), in John Huston's Wise Blood, 1979.

The relatively normal scam-artist preacher Hoover Shoates (Ned Beatty) extends professional courtesy to firebrand Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif), who isn't having any, in Wise Blood, 1979, directed by John Huston from the Flannery O'Connor novel.