Wise Blood (film)

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Wise Blood
Original film poster
Directed by	John Huston
Produced by	Kathy Fitzgerald Michael Fitzgerald
Written by	Flannery O'Connor (novel) Benedict Fitzgerald Michael Fitzgerald
Starring	Brad Dourif John Huston Dan Shor Harry Dean Stanton Amy Wright
Music by	Alex North
Cinematography	Gerry Fisher
Editing by	Roberto Silvi
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release dates	October 24, 1979
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States Germany
Language	English
Budget	$1,000,000 (est.)

Wise Blood is an American-German 1979 drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1952 novel Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. It was filmed mostly in and around Macon, Georgia, near O'Connor's home Andalusia in Baldwin County, using many local residents as extras. Though largely faithful to O'Connor's novel, Huston reframes many scenes from the book as broad comedy accompanied by a bluegrass banjo score. The original music score was composed by Alex North. The film was titled Der Ketzer or Die Weisheit des Blutes when released in German, and Le Malin when released in France.

Wise Blood was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival,^[1] and was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection on May 12, 2009.

Cast

Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes
John Huston as Grandfather
Dan Shor as Enoch Emory
Harry Dean Stanton as Asa Hawks
Amy Wright as Sabbath Lily
Mary Nell Santacroce as Landlady
Ned Beatty as Hoover Shoates
William Hickey as Preacher

Plot summary

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Wise Blood". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-25.

External links

Wise Blood at the Internet Movie Database
Wise Blood at allmovie
Wise Blood at Rotten Tomatoes

v t e Films directed by John Huston

1940s	The Maltese Falcon (1941) In This Our Life (1942) Across the Pacific (1942) Report from the Aleutians (1943) The Battle of San Pietro (1945) Let There Be Light (1946) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Key Largo (1948) We Were Strangers (1949)

1950s	The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Red Badge of Courage (1951) The African Queen (1951) Moulin Rouge (1952) Beat the Devil (1953) Moby Dick (1956) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) The Roots of Heaven (1958)

1960s	The Unforgiven (1960) The Misfits (1961) Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) The Night of the Iguana (1964) The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) Casino Royale (1967) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Sinful Davey (1969) A Walk with Love and Death (1969)

1970s	The Kremlin Letter (1970) Fat City (1972) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) The Mackintosh Man (1973) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Independence (1976) Wise Blood (1979)

1980s	Phobia (1980) Victory (1981) Annie (1982) Under the Volcano (1984) Prizzi's Honor (1985) The Dead (1987)

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