Preacherman

Preacherman
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Directed byAlbert T. Viola
Produced byRobert N. Langworthy
Albert T. Viola
StarringAlbert T. Viola
Ilene Kristen
Adam Hesse
Marian Brown
Esty F. Davis Jr.
CinematographyJim Collins
Edited byThomas DeBona
William J. Sawyer
Music byRoland Pope
W. Henry Smith
Distributed byTroma Entertainment
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65,000[1]
Box office$5,000,000[1]

Preacherman is a 1971 American comedy film written, directed, and starring Albert T. Viola. The film revolves around a backwoods con artist posing as a country preacher, who, during a sojourn in a small North Carolina town, alternately misleads a local landowner to take advantage of his daughter, but also helps him sell moonshine to get revenge on a rival. Initially released mostly to theatres in the American south by small distributor Variety Films, the modestly-budgeted film grossed over $5 million,[2] spawning a sequel, Preacherman Meets Widderwoman, in 1973. It was later widely distributed on home video by Troma Entertainment.

  1. ^ a b 'Good Ole Boy' Stars in Dixie Film-Making Boom By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr. New York Times 1 Nov 1975: 31.
  2. ^ Williamson, Jerry Wayne (1995). Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and what the Mountains Did to the Movies. ISBN 9780807845035.