"I was slashing fires and setting tires, busting heads and popping reds."
One of my favorites is Marjoe. Just got it on DVD to replace my lost VHS version. It won the oscar for best doco in 1972 I believe. It's about this travelling revival preacher who was a child preacher pimped out by his parents. In this documentary he invites a film crew to confess all the chicanery involved in his proffession so he can't go back.
If you watch a lot of crappy movies, you'll recognize the guy as he's in a lot of top notch trash (Starcrash, Viva Knieval, Pray for the Wildcats, and Mausoleum) as he turned the success of this documentary into a haphazard film career.
It's awesome, but don't be fooled and think the documentary team's follow up film, Gizmo, is any good.
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