Marjoe
By: Cinema 10 ; produced and directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan
Contributors: Gortner, Marjoe; Silk, Lawrence; Palevsky, Max; Cinema 10; Docurama (Firm); New Video Group
Publisher: Docurama; Distributed by New Video Group
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780767087889
Subjects: Evangelists; Evangelicalism; Fraud; Interviews; Evangelistic work; Religion; Case studies; Swindlers and swindling; Ethics; Economic aspects; Biography; History
Description: A documentary on Marjoe Gortner, who was trained by his holy roller parents to hustle for Jesus and began preaching on the evangelical circuit when he was three years old. Follows Marjoe during his last months of rock-style preaching before his retirement at 28, and includes his comments on life as a con-man and the ethics of his colleagues in the religion business.
Notes: Originally part of a set that included the documentary: Thoth.

DVD release of the 1972 documentary.

Special features: filmmaker biographies.

Container incorrectly states disc includes excerpts from Thoth's One-man opera

Executive producer, Max Palevsky ; editor, Larry Silk ; camera, Ed Lynch [and others].

Marjoe Gortner.

DVD ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.

Academy Awards, USA, 1972: Oscar - Best Documentary, Features (Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan).