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Elmer Gantry

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Elmer Gantry
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NR,2hrs 26min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1960
Director:
Richard Brooks
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger  ...more
Synopsis: Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon realizes her dream of building her own enormous tabernacle. These ambitions are put in jeopardy when a prostitute (Oscar-winning Shirley Jones), a former minister's ... Full Synopsis
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Dan Jardine, AMG Review
This once scandalous adaptation of the trenchant Sinclair Lewis novel may now seem a little dated, but it still has much to recommend it. It pulls few punches in its story of the hypocrisy, materialism, and opportunism at the heart of the evangelical world of Bible-thumping barnstorming revival troupes, an industry that professes to be about spiritual salvation. In the title role, Burt Lancaster moves ... Full Review
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Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons
Sister Sharon Falconer
Dean Jagger
William L. Morgan
Arthur Kennedy
Jim Lefferts
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