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.
Acting
Brad Dourif's bug-eyed intensity carries every scene.
Direction
Huston's final film, shot in O'Connor's actual Georgia.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it could cut you.
Director
John Huston
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Huston wrote the screenplay himself, his only adaptation of a novel.
O'Connor called her work 'Christian realism'—the film preserves her belief that grace often arrives through violence and the grotesque.
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