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Elmer Gantry
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.
1960 · Directed by Richard Brooks · 146 min · Drama · 9 frames
Tagline
If there was a dollar to be made—Gantry would make it … If there was a soul to be saved—Gantry would save it …
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Brooks
- Cinematography: John Alton
- Edited by: Marjorie Fowler
- Music: André Previn
- Produced by: Bernard Smith
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry
- Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer
- Arthur Kennedy as Jim Lefferts
- Dean Jagger as William L. Morgan
- Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains
- Patti Page as Sister Rachel
- Edward Andrews as George F. Babbitt
- John McIntire as Rev. John Pengilly
- Hugh Marlowe as Rev. Philip Garrison
- Joe Maross as Pete
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: United Artists
- Budget: $3,000,000
- Box office: $10,400,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, con man, fraud, kansas, usa, religion, preacher, religious hypocrisy, traveling salesman, evangelist, revivalism
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