The film contains scenes from revival meetings showing Gortner preaching and praying for people in Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Detroit, and Anaheim.

[4] At the time of the film's release, it generated considerable press, but the movie was not shown widely in theaters in the Southern United States.

[3][5] A soundtrack was released by Warner Bros. Records, consisting of sermons and spoken word segments by Marjoe (from age four), intermixed with songs.

[6] "Save All My Brothers", the film's theme song, was written by Sarah Kernochan and Joseph Brooks, who also arranged it, and it was sung by Jerry Keller.

[9] On November 15, 2005, in New York City, the IFC Center showed Marjoe[10] as the closing film in a series of documentaries called "Stranger Than Fiction".