Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979)
Guyana: Crime of the Century
The movie that dares to tell the truth behind the most shocking crime of the century!
90 min
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)
- Release date
- September 20, 1979
- Country of origin
- United States, Mexico
- Music
- Jimmie Haskell, Alfredo Díaz Ordaz, George S. Price
Trailer
Cast
- Stuart Whitman as Reverend James Johnson
- Gene Barry as Congressman Lee O'Brien
- John Ireland as Dave Cole
- Joseph Cotten as Richard Gable
- Bradford Dillman as Dr. Gary Shaw
- Jennifer Ashley as Anna Kazan
- Yvonne De Carlo as Susan Ames
- Nadiuska as Leslie Stevens
- Tony Young as Ron Harvey
- Erika Carlsson as Marilyn Johnson
Crew
- René Cardona Jr. · Director
- Carlos Valdemar · Writer
- René Cardona Jr. · Writer
- René Cardona Jr. · Producer
- Jimmie Haskell · Composer
- Alfredo Díaz Ordaz · Composer
- George S. Price · Composer
- Nelson Riddle · Composer
- Leopoldo Villaseñor · Cinematographer
- Earl Watson · Editor