Comedy / Drama /

Score: 63%( 99 votes )

Overview: 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.

Cast:

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)