Marjoe

Marjoe is a 1972 American documentary film directed and produced by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan about Pentecostal preacher Marjoe Gortner, who was ordained as a preacher at only age four and became an evangelist sensation in the 1940s.

Made with the knowledge and consent of Gortner, who, now in his late twenties, regrets the many lies he had been taught to preach as a child evangelist, documents his story and preachings that often leave church-goers in states of fervent euphoria, and culminate in money donations. While Gortner privately explains to the film crew the often-deceptive methods of many evangelists, most of the individuals featured, evangelists and church-goers alike, are unaware of the film's true aim of exposing exploitation and deception within evangelism.