Guyana: Crime of the Century

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Guyana: Crime of the Century
The current DVD cover features the two alternate English titles of the film
Directed by	René Cardona Jr.
Written by	René Cardona Jr.
Starring	Stuart Whitman Gene Barry John Ireland Jennifer Ashley Bradford Dillman Joseph Cotten
Cinematography	Leopoldo Villaseñor
Edited by	Earl Watson
Music by	Jimmie Haskell Alfredo Díaz Ordaz
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	20 September 1979 (1979-09-20) (Mexico) 25 January 1980 (1980-01-25) (U.S.)
Running time	115 minutes (Mexico) 90 minutes (U.S.) 108 minutes (UK)
Country	Mexico
Language	English
Box office	$3,798,102[1]

Guyana: Crime of the Century (also known as Guyana: Cult of the Damned) is a 1979 English-language Mexican exploitation drama 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 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.