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Wise Blood

6.41979 · 1h 46m · EN

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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.

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Brad Dourif

Hazel Motes

Dan Shor

Enoch Emory

Amy Wright

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Harry Dean Stanton

Asa Hawks

Mary Nell Santacroce

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Ned Beatty

Hoover Shoates

John Huston

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Director: John Huston
Status: Released
Audience votes: 113

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