San Antonio's Albert T. Viola (One Naked Night) wrote, directed, and stars in this variation of Elmer Gantry, swapping the grindhouse for the drive-in market and scoring bigger box office returns in the process. Viola is con man Amos Huxley, who lands in a small North Carolina town and proceeds to swindle the local rubes out of their egg money while seducing a hot-to-trot farmer's daughter (Ilene Kristen from Lewis Teague's The Lady In Red) by appearing as the virginity-restoring "Angel Leroy." Also with Bill Simpson from Moonshine Mountain and J.G. "Pat" Patterson of Body Shop infamy. The film's runaway success with southern audiences, who apparently were not troubled by Viola's depiction of them as blithering idiots, spurred a sequel, 1973's Preacherman Meets Widderwoman, in which Huxley encounters his conniving match. The original was later picked up by Troma, Inc., which gave it a splashy - and characteristically misleading - new campaign.
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