Speak of the Devil (1989): Cast & Plot

Reverend Jonah Johnson [Thomas McGowan] is a phony Louisiana Evangelist preacher, whose wife Isabelle Johnson [Jean Carol] uses his sermons to fleece their parishioners of their money. During his first satellite feed on TV, he pretends to “heal” a man in a wheelchair as a man from the IRS watches, but he is soon interrupted by the police with a warrant for his arrest and a redneck father declaring he is the father of his daughter’s unborn baby. Johnson flees the scene, also chased by the actor who played the phony paraplegic, and is soon caught by a local police officer, who lets him go. His arrest would upset the officer’s widowed mother, a loyal Johnson supporter.