Portraits of two American “men of God” who are three-quarters show biz, Huie's Sermon and God's Angry Man reflect Werner Herzog's own fascination with extraordinary, obsessive individuals, as well as his assertion that, though they don't know it, Americans “are the most exotic people in the world right now.” In Huie's Sermon, Reverend Huie (Bishop Huie L. Rogers) rises out of a bombed-out urban landscape--Brooklyn, New York--to preach a line bursting with energy, raving with James Brown-like fervor, railing against the hubris and ineptitude of mankind, and ultimately inspiring in his congregation a frenzy of optimism. Contrasted to this display is that of W. Eugene Scott, God's madman, whose religion is as modern as Huie's is old-time. From his California telethon pulpit he abuses the faithful into opening their checkbooks for “God's honor.” His subjects range from godless homosexuals to godless women's libbers, but his main concerns are two: FCC bureaucrats (who finally pulled the plug on him last May) and money.

Huie's Sermon