Made just a couple of years after the mass suicide-murder at Jonestown Guyana in 1978, "Guyana Tragedy" does a fairly good job of depicting the complicated rise and fall of Jim Jones and The People's Temple.
Powers Booth is mesmerizing as he portrays Jones from his younger days as a sincere preacher and civil rights leader until his descent into fraud, adultery,and drug abuse.
Veronica Cartwright is fine as Jones' wife Marceline although there is little explanation as to why she stayed married to man like Jim Jones.In the end, she is shown dispensing poison to other residents of Jonestown.
One problem that I have with the film is the fairly graphic depiction of the mass-suicide."Guyana Tragedy" would have been better without it.
Powers Booth is mesmerizing as he portrays Jones from his younger days as a sincere preacher and civil rights leader until his descent into fraud, adultery,and drug abuse.
Veronica Cartwright is fine as Jones' wife Marceline although there is little explanation as to why she stayed married to man like Jim Jones.In the end, she is shown dispensing poison to other residents of Jonestown.
One problem that I have with the film is the fairly graphic depiction of the mass-suicide."Guyana Tragedy" would have been better without it.