You Keep the Faith...Marjoe Keeps the Money
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.
Marjoe Gortner
Self
Vernon Gortner
Self
Agnes Benjamin
Self
Sarah Kernochan
Self
Director
Howard Smith
Lawrence Silk
Editor
Kenneth Van Sickle
Director of Photography
Ed Lynch
Director of Photography
David Myers
Director of Photography
Michael Shea
Director of Photography
Thomas Reichman
Director of Photography
Chimpanzee
10/20/2018
It's a weird one. On the one hand it's an interesting insight into the shady world of evangelism and the mind of a man who doesn't believe what he's preaching. But the film doesn't really go anywhere or tell much of a story. It just seems like a lot of footage of Marjoe evangelising inter-cut with interviews, all of which ends rather abruptly without making any real point or coming to much of a conclusion.
