Elmer Gantry

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Elmer Gantry (1960)

NR 07/07/1960 (US) Drama 2h 26m

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If there was a dollar to be made—Gantry would make it … If there was a soul to be saved—Gantry would save it …

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A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.

Richard Brooks

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Sinclair Lewis

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Burt Lancaster

Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons

Sister Sharon Falconer
Arthur Kennedy

Jim Lefferts
Dean Jagger

William L. Morgan
Shirley Jones

Lulu Bains
Patti Page

Sister Rachel
Edward Andrews

George F. Babbitt
John McIntire

Rev. John Pengilly
Hugh Marlowe

Rev. Philip Garrison
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A review by Wuchak

70%

Written by Wuchak on August 12, 2024

The story of traveling tent revivalists in 1920’s America

A fast-talking salesman from Missouri (Burt Lancaster) is attracted to the troupe of a winsome evangelist (Jean Simmons). Once he proves his abilities as a charismatic preacher, he joins the "road church" show, but a woman from his past threatens to shake things up (Shirley Jones). Arthur Kennedy plays a reporter who travels with the group by train.

"Elmer Gantry" (1960) was based on less than one-fourth of the 1927 book by agnostic-turned-atheist Sinclair Lewis. It makes fundamental changes to the two main characters by pain... read the rest.

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