Watch NowElmer Gantry (1960)
07/07/1960
Drama
2h 26m
- 73% (185 votes)
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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 …
Overview
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 BrooksDirector, Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$3,000,000
Revenue
$10,400,000
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- con man
- fraud
- kansas, usa
- religion
- preacher
- religious hypocrisy
- traveling salesman
- evangelist
- revivalism
- revival meeting
Top Billed Cast
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
Joe Maross
Pete
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