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    Elmer Gantry

    1960 · Drama · 2h 25m

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  1. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › elmer_gantryElmer Gantry | Rotten Tomatoes

    94% Tomatometer 33 Reviews 87% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), a ...

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  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0053793Elmer Gantry (1960) - User Reviews - IMDb

    Set in the early 1920s, the film stars Lancaster as Elmer Gantry, a fast talking charlatan and con man who uses his seductive tongue to weasel his way into the church of Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), a Christian fundamentalist and female evangelist.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elmer_Gantry_(film)Elmer Gantry (film) - Wikipedia

    Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page .

  5. www.imdb.com › title › tt0053793Elmer Gantry (1960) - IMDb

    Elmer Gantry: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger. A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.

    • (13K)
    • Drama
    • Richard Brooks
    • 1960-08-26

  6. www.tcm.com › tcmdb › titleElmer Gantry (1960) - Turner Classic Movies

    Synopsis. In the 1920s, Elmer Gantry entertains a group of fellow salesmen in a speakeasy with his ribald jokes and easy charm. When a Salvation Army worker enters, Gantry shocks and moves the crowd with an impromptu, impassioned sermon equating God with love. After collecting money from the patrons, Gantry takes a drunken barfly back to his ...

    • Richard Brooks
    • Burt Lancaster

  7. variety.com › 1959 › filmElmer Gantry - Variety

    In filming Sinclair Lewis' contentious 1927 study of a scandalous evangelist, Elmer Gantry, Richard Brooks has framed a big story and bold religioso subject for the old-fashioned rectangular ...

  8. letterboxd.com › film › elmer-gantry‎Elmer Gantry (1960) directed by Richard Brooks • Reviews ...

    Review by James Knight ★★★★ 1. Looking at this film, Sweet Smell of Success and Birdman of Alcatraz, it's easy to put forward the argument for Lancaster being one of the greatest actors off all time. Now officially a Richard Brooks fan boy as well.