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Guyana: Crime of the Century
Mexican–American exploitation drama film
Guyana: Crime of the Century (also known as Guyana: Cult of the Damned) is a English-language Mexican exploitationdrama film written and directed by René Cardona Jr.
The film, which was shot in Mexico, is based on the Jonestown Massacre. It stars a number of American actors such as Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry and Joseph Cotten.
The “Jonestown Massacre” occurred on November 18, , when more than members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder.
The names of central characters are slightly tweaked from the historical ones: the film is set in "Johnsontown" rather than Jonestown, the cult is led by "Reverend James Johnson" (Whitman) rather than Rev. Jim Warren Jones, and the murdered Congressman is "Lee O'Brien" (Barry) rather than Leo Ryan.
Plot
In , Reverend James Johnson, the fanatical and paranoid leader of an independent San Francisco church, moves his thousand-strong congregation to the jungles of Guyana. There, they will create their own utopia, free from the so-called corruption of the civilized world.
Life a