Jagger as a model for his routine - talks about how he and other evangelists manipulated regular folks during revivals, and he's seen in his hotel room counting the money he had collected one day.

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby described the film as  less a documentary about Marjoe's final weeks on the Pentecostal church-and-tent circuit than a feature-length screen test for a career in show biz. 

In 1972, Gortner recorded an album, Bad, but Not Evil, which featured him singing Bob Dylan's  I Shall Be Released  and  Lo and Behold!,  and with all this notoriety, he was signed to a contract at Universal.

Gortner also starred with Lynda Carter in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976), appeared in the daredevil biopic Viva Knievel! (1977) and toplined a low-budget space opera, Starcrash (1978).

His résumé included appearances on Barnaby Jones, Medical Center, Police Story, Laugh-In, The A-Team, Fantasy Island, Airwolf and Hotel, and he played a preacher in Wild Bill (1995), one of his final roles.

He also produced Circus of the Stars specials and celebrity sports invitationals that helped raise money for charity.

Survivors include his fifth wife, Susan, whom he married in 2019. He was briefly married to American Graffiti actress Candy Clark - they starred together in When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? - in the late '70s.