US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a ‘prophetic gift’…
Release Date: 17 February 1980Runtime: 106 min
Stars:
- Amy Wright
- Betty Lou Groover
- Brad Dourif
- Dan Shor
- Gillaaron Houck
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Herb Kossover
- J.L. Parker
- John Huston
- John Tyndall
- Marvin Sapp
- Mary Nell Santacroce
- Ned Beatty
- Richard Earle
- William Hickey
Director: John Huston
