Guyana: Cult of the Damned (aka (Guyana: Crime of the Century)) - DVD

Cult leader Reverend Jim Jones' (Boothe) life is chronicled from his days as an idealistic 1960's activist who runs scams and spends his nights as a womanizer to a self-prolaimed modern day Messiah. Jim Jones styled himself after 1930's religious leader Father Divine, played in flashbacks by James Earl Jones. The 1978 mass suicide of 913 followers at the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana, in South American is staged in a chilling documentary style of events. Powers Boothe's dynamic performance as the charismatic self-styled preacher won him the Emmy Award as outstanding actor.

Originally shown as a two-part TV movie, this is a gripping recreation of the horrible tragedy of the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious InchcolonyInch of Jonestown. Powers Boothe's portrayal of the cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones earned him an InchEmmyInch and the film traces the life of Jones from his early activist period to his rise as a modern day messiah. The climatic suicide scenes are convincingly recreated in a near-documentary style, and the whole production benefits from a huge supporting cast of excellent players.

Available at last on video, the notorious exploitation shocker from Mexican director René Cardona, Jr. That purported to show the gruesome events leading up to the November 1978 mass suicide of cult leader Reverend Jim Jones and over 900 of his People's Temple followers in the South American jungle. Stuart Whitman stars as the fanatical InchRev. James JohnsonInch; with Gene Barry, Joseph Cotten, Yvonne de Carlo, John Ireland. AKA InchGuyana Crime of the Century.Inch 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; isolated music score; theatrical trailer.