22.9.10

the world's greatest sinner (1962)


"I have a plan. A plan to make me a God."
Insurance salesman, Clarence Hilliard (Timothy Carey) is sacked when he gives everyone who works under him the day off. Now free from the corporate world, he sets off to make his mark on life, and decides to become a preacher. Then preaching one day someone suggests he should form a band to attract a crowd...and thus starts his rise through the ranks of rock n roll, religion and politics.
Cheap, sloppy and uneven, this still manages though its shear irrepresibility to hold ones attention. You will never see anything like this again! If it had come out of Paris it would have been avant garde, but being American its just plain eccentric and unique! A diamond in the rough, but still a diamond.

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