Elmer Gantry

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-07-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

146 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (7484 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Burt Lancaster Jean Simmons Arthur Kennedy Dean Jagger

Writer:

Richard Brooks (screenplay)

Sinclair Lewis (from the novel by)

Fullplot:

Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risquè story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire and damnation revivalism has attracted quite a following. Gantry uses his own quick wit and knowledge of the bible to become an indispensable part of Sister Sharon's roadshow but soon finds that his past catches up with him in the form of Lulu Bains, now a prostitute. While Gantry seeks and eventually gets forgiveness from Sharon, tragedy strikes when she finally manages to get out of her revivalist tent and opens a permanent church.

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