{"id":43053,"date":"2026-10-22T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43053"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:32:56","slug":"marjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43053","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Marjoe&#8221; (1972) starring Marjoe Gortner \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102226review_marjoe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Marjoe <\/i>(1972)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Marjoe Gortner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>You Keep the Faith&#8230;Marjoe Keeps the Money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marjoe Gortner&#8217;s parents were traveling evangelists.\u00a0 While still a small child, his parents discovered Marjoe&#8217;s ability to mimick adults.\u00a0 They devised the story that Marjoe while taking a bath was struck by the Holy spirit.\u00a0 Marjoe was ordained at the age of four.\u00a0 His parents practiced with Marjoe the words to say, the hand gestures to make and the body language to project for each sermon.\u00a0 Marjoe was a sensation everywhere they went.\u00a0 After each sermon the money poured in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marjoe, in his twenties, decided to expose the methods used to dupe folks.\u00a0 He took a documentary crew with him on his last revival tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Marjoe<\/em> was nominated and won the <em>Academy Award<\/em> for <em>Best Documentary, Features &#8211;<\/em><strong>Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marjoe&#8217;s father appeared in one scene unaware that the documentary was an expos\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Marjoe Gortner went on to have a career as an actor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Marjoe <\/i>(1972)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102226review_marjoe2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjoe (1972) Director: Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan Stars:\u00a0 Marjoe Gortner Tagline: You Keep the Faith&#8230;Marjoe Keeps the Money. The Plot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43150,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43053\/revisions\/43150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}