- Title: Elmer Gantry
- Original Title: Elmer Gantry
- Release Date: 07/07/1960
- 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 …
- Budget: $3,000,000.00
- Duration:146 Min / 02:26
- Country:US
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 7.27
Total Votes: 186
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Burt Lancaster is on great form here as the eponymous quick-talking and charismatic hoover salesman who alights upon the successful industry that is "Sister Sharon" (Jean Simmons). She preaches the word of God with a piousness that he finds compelling. Not because he shares her zeal, but because he can see the impact it has on the rather...
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