Marjoe
You Keep the Faith...Marjoe Keeps the Money
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 24, 2016
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Cinedigm
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marjoe Gortner | |
Directed by | Sarah Kernochan & Howard Smith | |
Edited by | Lawrence Silk | |
Cinematography by | Ed Lynch, David Myers, Richard Pearce, Thomas Reichman, Kenneth Van Sickle & Mike Shea | |
Produced by | Sarah Kernochan & Howard Smith |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
For many complicated reasons, fundamentalist Christianity in America doesn't look the same today as it did in 1972, when Marjoe won the Academy Award for best documentary.
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New York Times
In 1972, Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith's Marjoe was enough of an eye-opening sensation to make news of itself and Oscar winners of its creators.
Village Voice
Rating: 3/4 --
A portrait of interior disconnect between authentic faith and cynical disillusionment.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
Especially entertaining is this con man's exposing all the tricks of the trade, from how he healed confederates feigning illnesses to the special gestures and vocal cadences designed to hypnotize his gullible followers.
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Upstage Magazine
This extraordinary documentary shows Marjoe back in the pulpit for an expose of the church-and-tent revival circuit.
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Spirituality and Practice
Description by OLDIES.com:
Marjoe Gortner, today known primarily for his acting roles in B-movies, was at one time a boy faith healer and evangelist. Wildly popular in the American South, he could fill huge tent revival meetings with his promises of eternal salvation and healing. What the people who came to his meetings didn't know, and what this documentary shows, is that he was a fake who was used by others to make money.
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- Sales Rank: 81,191
- UPC: 889290934574
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