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.



Amy Wright
Sabbath Lily

Harry Dean Stanton
Asa Hawks

Mary Nell Santacroce
Landlady

Ned Beatty
Hoover Shoates

John Huston
Grandfather

William Hickey
Preacher