Details

Release year: 1976

Storyline

In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.

Top credits

Directors

Anthony Harvey

Writers

John McGreevey

Cast

Faye Dunaway — Sister Aimee Semple McPherson
Bette Davis — Minnie Kennedy
James Sloyan — Dist. Atty. Asa Keyes
James Woods — Asst. Disty. Atty. Joseph Ryan

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Did you know

• In an interview published in the New York Times on 20 December 1993, director Anthony Harvey said that during filming of this movie, Bette Davis "absolutely took a dislike to Faye Dunaway... I would line them up for a two-shot," he said, "then look through the camera, and I couldn't see Bette." Each time, Davis had inched her chair away to evade a tete-a-tete with the younger Dunaway.

• This movie was filmed in Denver, Colorado. Scenes were filmed at the Denver County Court House and at a local church. The extras used in those scenes were local Denver citizens who received a box lunch but no pay.

• Faye Dunaway replaced Ann-Margret who was originally cast.