A backwoods healer with 200 cures and zero medical license. Appalachian medicine at its wildest.
1974 documentary about Clarence Frederick "Catfish" Gray a herbalist and folk doctor in West Virginia.
Production
Raw 1974 vérité captures vanishing Appalachian culture.
Direction
Unobtrusive camera lets Catfish's charisma dominate.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during the last gasp of traditional Appalachian folk medicine before pharmaceutical dominance.
Most of Catfish's remedies combined European herbalism, Indigenous knowledge, and pure Appalachian improvisation.
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