Guyana Tragedy: Story of Jim Jones [VHS]
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Movie Review: Guyana Tragedy: Story of Jim Jones
Summary: 1 Stars
VHS Tape that I received could not be viewed. Returned for credit.Movie Review: Best TV Movie of the Week -entertaining yet only half the story about Jim Jones>
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best TV 'movie of the week' films ever made.But, it's misleading and can only give its viewers limited information.It was only a two-part mini-series.And it had many of the best character actors and actresses of TV and movies.Powers Booth was an excellent choice for the role of Preacher Jones.Jim Jones' family went from the bluegrass of Kentucky into the concrete jungle of Gary,Indiana.The only good thing about Jim(Kleindienst)Jones was that he saw the basic human need for racial equality and social justice.Some of the Dixie Dregs embraced the Hoosier Republican Klan politics of racial seperation.Jim Jones fought against the Jim Crow laws.Jim Jones the Egotist believed he was the reincarnation of Jesus the Bellwether leading his flock to paradise.Jones was as slick and as glib as 'Old Scratch'.He turned out to be a vain demagogue of destruction and a false phophet spreading lies to his brethen.Jones was the strangest janiform cult figure,of modern history.In 1972,Jim Jones and actor Robert Clary(of Hogan's Heroes fame)were booked for 'indecent exposure and lewd acts' after being arrested at a midnight show in a porn theatre.Jones believed that a nuclear holocaust was coming and Guyana was the only place where their paradise would survive and flourish.Christianity is the opium of the masses,and Jim Jones was the main peddler of cherubic pipe dreams. Movie Review: Gives a good understanding of the tragedy and the events leading up to it.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Jonestown tragedy had previously been made into the exploitation film "Guyana - Crime of the Century". However, this TV production, with a running time of about three hours gives a better understanding of how it could happen. The story starts when Jim Jones is a child, being indoctrinated by a Christian fundamentalist friend. He starts the integrated People's Temple Church after discovering how racist the established churches in San Francisco are. He really wants to do something good for the community and he does, but power corrupts and the church turns into more of a money making cult and Jones turns into a cruel leader. His drug use and paranoia doesn't make things better. After moving to Guyana, Jones has complete control over his folloers, and with him as a leader, Jonestown is headed for destruction.
This gives a good understanding of the events, and what it might have been like for the people involved. The mass suicide sequence is reconstructed almost completely the way it happened, based on tape recordings. As a piece of trivia, the gospel songs performed by the People's Temple Choir are recordings of the actual choir.
I certainly recommend this film to those interested in the Jonestown story, destructive cults, or 1970s history in general.
Movie Review: Before Waco,Before Heaven's Gate.
Summary: 5 Stars
Jim Jones,A crazy preacher brainwashes his People's Temple cult to move from Illinios,I think to Jonestown.Africa,where they are forced to drink a Kool-Aid laced with syinide. Jim Jones himself had jungle fever,so he was dying anyway. Some of the People's temple did get away. The People's Temple did call Jim Jones"DAD"Movie Review: Entertaining, but highly inaccurate
Summary: 2 Stars
Powers Boothe, while obviously talented and provided a strong character, he did not capture the real Jim Jones in any sense. This movie is so full of inaccuracies that it is not worth viewing to obtain any true information regarding the Peoples Temple movement. I would recommend some of the documentaries such as Purple Haze or the A & E Biography of Jim Jones-Journey into Madness. I found this motion picture misleading and almost total fiction as I know many, many family members and survivors of Peoples Temple and have written/researched Peoples Temple extensively.