Wise Blood

An American Masterpiece!

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.

Comedy Drama

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)

J.L. Parker

(Karl)

Marvin Sapp

(Raymond)

Richard Earle

(Jakob Winslow)

Herb Kossover

(Jacob Wood)

Betty Lou Groover

(Leora Watts)

John Tyndall

(Loki Martinson)

Gillaaron Houck

(Stranger #1)

Philip Mixer

(Stranger #2)

Sharon Johnson

(Stranger #3)

Joe Dorsey

(Stranger #4)

Stratton Leopold

(Depressed Human)

Leonard Holmes

(Stranger #5)

Daniel Albright

(Stranger #6)

Tommy Alson

(Young Man)

Harold Horne

(Stranger #7)

Jim Barbee

(Slade)

Gene Howard

(Little Boy)

Raymond Foskey

(Salesman)

Vicky Dyer

(Little Girl)

Elijah Perry

(Jerry Bob Jackson)

Ken Flower

(Ken Guy)

Gladys Hill

(Lisa Martinson)

Ray Wilkes

(Slade Bob Jackson)

Dan Albright

(Policeman)

Allan A. Apone

(Gonga the Gorilla (uncredited))

Don Chambers

(Street Listener (uncredited))

William Finley

(Man (uncredited))

Bart Russell

(Man in the Street (uncredited))