Posted on 11/25/2005 12:44:43 PM PST by SirLinksalot
He also was narrator/singer of a Gospel Film about the life of Christ entitled -- THE GOSPEL ROAD.
The film left out an important segment of Johnny Cash's life.
Many, many people have turned from their wicked ways after finding salvation in Jesus Christ. This is a message that Hollywood does not want to get out.
Yeah, it did.
But I still enjoyed the movie.
What one must really watch out for if they go to that movie are the previews. You might be subjected to the gay cowboy movie preview. I refused to watch, but then I knew immediately what it was. Others I'm sure did not.
"Johnny Cash actually participated in several Billy Graham Crusades.
He also was narrator/singer of a Gospel Film about the life of Christ entitled -- THE GOSPEL ROAD.
The film left out an important segment of Johnny Cash's life."
I thought the movie covered the period up to the Folsom Prison concert - before Cash's public Christianity and well before his duet with Reverend Graham (Called the Preacher Said).
Hollywood wouldn't deem them wicked in the first place.
With more respect to Hollywood than it deserves, it is impossible to portray the importance of Salvation without having personally experienced it.
Specifically, you saw John and June going to church there near the end. Granted that isn't the story, but I guess that's all of it they cared to tell.
There is a DVD out of some vintage Town Hall Party performances from Johnny Cash (I believe when he was still on Sun Records) from 1958. It was released by Bear Family and although it is a German import, it is in NTSC and can be found at some major retailers (like Fry's).
Among the songs he sings is "It Was Jesus".
It is jarring because of the lack of direct references to God and Jesus in the mainstream media of today.
And much of the music sung by The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis' impromptu session with Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash at Sun Studios after he had left for RCA) is religious themed.
Makes you wonder what the movie about GW will be like...
I'm so sick of browbeaters who trash movies because it "isn't Christian enough." Fine. Start your own production company and direct it yourself. What do you expect from Hollywood?
I enjoyed the movie very much.
..it was conceived 10 years ago, when they were alive.
Yes I enjoyed it also. I just was mad about the previews.
Hollyweird doesn't care what happened after Johnny came to the lord and it doesn't server their puroses to tell that story.
"Revived his career". His career had a number of ups and downs and they weren't all related to drugs and drinking.
The industry shut him out and called him old. In the 1990s he made a stab at the "alternative" market without changing his sound, just reviving part of his image; The Man In Black. He was still largely ignored. Producer Rick Rubin used the 1973 image of Cash shooting-the-bird to "thank" the music industry.
THAT would have been a more compelling movie. About how an aged old man who had lived a full life still had energy and faith in him and despite some backer support saw the door shut in his face. "But life isn't like that, the underdog wins and talented people sell albums."
Blow apart the smoke and mirrors of the entertainment industry. These are the same people who loved seeing songs like "How much is that doggie in the window" dominate the hit parade and sold us Tab Hunter and Fabian as "rock and roll".
Don't let this article stop you from seeing a great movie.
I didn't see the movie, and probably won't. Did it touch on all at his time in the U S Air Force Security Service?
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