Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The World's Greatest Sinner (1962)
THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER (1962) ¢ 1/2
D: Timothy Carey
Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto,
Betty Rowland, James Farley
Longtime character actor and weapons-grade eccentric Timothy Carey wrote, produced, directed, distributed and starred in this proto-indie experiment about an insurance salesman who decides to reinvent himself as God. If it's not one of the worst movies ever made - and it might be - it's at least one of the craziest, but give Carey credit for not wasting his one shot at being an auteur. If nothing else, it's uncompromising, a work that practically defines the border between artistic ambition and madness. A young Frank Zappa, billed in the credits simply as "Zappa", composed the musical score.