Preacherman | |
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Directed by | Albert T. Viola |
Produced by | Robert N. Langworthy Albert T. Viola |
Starring | Albert T. Viola Ilene Kristen Adam Hesse Marian Brown Esty F. Davis Jr. |
Cinematography | Jim Collins |
Edited by | Thomas DeBona William J. Sawyer |
Music by | Roland Pope W. Henry Smith |
Distributed by | Troma Entertainment |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.