Marjoe

Name: Marjoe
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1972-07-24
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Sarah Kernochan, Marjoe Gortner, Vernon Gortner, Agnes Benjamin

You Keep the Faith...Marjoe Keeps the Money

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Release Date

7/24/1972

Runtime

88 mins

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

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Released

Original Language

English

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A sharp-eyed documentary that peels back the theatrical machinery of revival tent evangelism, revealing the gap between spiritual performance and commercial ambition. Uncomfortable, illuminating, and darkly comic.