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Wise Blood
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Started conversation Jul 28, 2004
This is one of John Huston's last films - made seven or eight years before his death. It stars two of Hollywood's perennial weirdos - Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton in the movie adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's novel about a disillusioned young man - Hazel Motes - returning to his southern home after a stint in the army. Without giving away too much of the plot, Motes (Dourif) forms his own church - the Church Without Christ, then meets another preacher (Stanton) and his daughter.
A number of words beginning with the letter 'g' - gothic, grotesque, spring to mind when looking for a way to describe this film. It's full of characters you couldn't possibly think of as real, and yet the deep south of America was (still is to a degree) populated with people such as this. The film is unusually faithful to the book.
It's not so hard to believe that the same man who directed The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of The Sierra Madre, The Man Who Would be King, and The African Queen directed this film... but Annie? 
To the best of my knowledge, Wise Blood has been put out on VHS, but has never been released on DVD. It occasionally shows up on late night BBC 2.
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