- Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Sarah Kernochan, S.K. Thoth
- Directors: Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith
- Producers: Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith, Curt Johnson, Lynn Appelle
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: New Video Group
- DVD Release Date: 31 Jan 2006
- Run Time: 104 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000CCW2VG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 41,904 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inside Christian fundamentalism,
This review is from: Marjoe [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This guy must of made a lot of enemies after this came out, an inside perspective of the money making racket that forms part of the christian revolution. A few nervous glances at camera as other preachers tell their secrets. FIVE STAR. All the usual, people convulsing on the floor as the evil spirits are taken from them, all for only fifty bucks.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (36 customer reviews) 42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
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Praise the Lord, Marjoe is back!,
By Steve Gronert Ellerhoff - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marjoe [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I have waited and waited and waited and waited for this release on DVD. Marjoe won the Oscar in 1972 for best documentary and rightfully so. He went out on a limb, admitting he was a fraud and an entertainer, and brought a film crew to capture it all. I love this film, the way he shows traveling evangelists are mainly cons who make off with a lot of money from people who don't have any to begin with. The segment with the preacher woman who breathes into her mic is crippling--telling her congregation she knows they have bills to pay and have set aside money for a winter coat but the church needs that money more. Ugh... It's incredible to watch him perform and preach the word at these revivals--he's very much a rock star--and even though he's taking this money, it's easy to sympathize with him. He was thrust into preaching at the age of four by parents who exploited and abused him to make money for the family--and ultimately, the film itself is his confession and he's genuinely sorry. I needed this movie when I saw it ten years ago. May it find more viewers who are in a bad way. Marjoe is the court jester of evangelists, and I thank him for doing this film and tarnishing his name on the Pentecostal circuit by doing so. He's helped some of us decades after he took that leap.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Best ever version of this classic,
By Jim Quist - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marjoe [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I concur with all the other enthusiastic reviews of this documentary. What you need to know is that this film has been restored, literally transformed compared to the old VHS version of this. The colors are bright, the picture clear, the sound is crisp. What I like most about this movie is the way it messes with your mind, delightfully. Or as others have noted, the truth sure is strange, and you've got an all access pass to this here travelin' show.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"This is a business...",
By danger ex machina - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marjoe [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
...and, over the course of 90 minutes, Brother Marjoe and his intrepid crew out the bizarre and wild world of Pentacostal hucksterism. What a weird circle of exploitation...no wonder he decided to come clean. Just try not to look as the toothless man screams in tongues during a sermon! Regal at the close-ups of the gaudy (and no doubt pricey) necklace worn by Reverend Taylor as she preaches that her ministry doesn't spend the congregants money on "foolishness"! Why, it's like rubbernecking at a car wreck and watching a gang of battered old drunks waiting for the state store to open rolled into one! Heck, this is almost as good as the psuedo-documentary of Idi Amin, and nearly as sad. It's hard not to feel pity for the way these rubes are being duped, and from the looks of it they're pretty oblivious. One minister candidly talks about his upcoming trip to Brazil. He owns land there, which he tells Marjoe a food processor is interested in. Bought and paid for with your generous donations, praise Jesus! Marjoe helpfully describes some of his carny tricks, like drawing red crosses with sweat activated ink, and the radio/televangelist method of turning "prophecies" into maximum financial return. He evens throws a smoke bomb (shown in a short clip near the end)! Yeah, Marjoe may have been a pretty dispicable con man too, but at least he did his best to expose this nonsense when his conscience got to him. If my parents pimped me to church folks for a living from the age of four, I'd doubtless do the same, and probably with a ton of venom that Marjoe never displays (at least for the cameras). Highly recommended viewing...invite your prayer group over for popcorn and Dr. Pepper!
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