Angel Baby is a 1961 American drama film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Salome Jens, George Hamilton and Mercedes McCambridge.

[1] The song, "Jenny Angel", sung by George Hamilton, is played during the closing credits of the film.

Paul's preaching method includes having provocatively-costumed women perform the parts of temptresses in the Bible, such as Jezebel and Delilah.

Angel begins her own traveling ministry (with the help of Ben and Molly Hays), but she is not attracting many followers nor many donations.

Noticing her beauty and potential, an unscrupulous businessman, Sam Wilcox, approaches Angel Baby to market his patent medicines.

Paul remains dissatisfied with his marriage to Sarah, because it turns out that he was a choirboy who was led astray by her, molded into a prophet of her imagination.

Angel has become increasingly popular, drawing huge crowds, including Hoke, who vows that he will not stand in line to see her.

Things are going well in the tent until Sarah bursts in, shouts condemnation of Angel, and claims that the man in the wheelchair has been paid to fake a miracle.

As people flee, there is a particularly vivid shot of an upturned wheelchair wheel spinning as the crowd in the background runs around.

[3] After appearing in Where the Boys Are, George Hamilton was determined to make "better, more serious movies", partly to impress the family of his girlfriend, Susan Kohner.

[5] Shortly into filming in Coral Gables, Florida, Cornfield fell ill with appendicitis, and Paul Wendkos replaced him.

"[7] Variety criticized the film for "ponderous and heavyhanded melodramatics", saying that evangelism "is a topic that requires careful and serious scrutiny if it is to form the basis for valid, effective drama: It receives no such cogent consideration".