Arthur Kennedy, Barry Kelley, Burt Lancaster
A travelling con-man preacher, who's often drunk and chasing skirts, hooks up with a serious Evangelist. He joins her entourage and her drive to build a seaside temple, but his playboy ways come back ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001
Stats: 142 reviews
Lol i saw this awhile ago and forget to rate it. AMAZING, This is just amazing acting, Really spectacular. Burt Lancaster was Magnificent and so was Jean Simmons. A Classic that only like 7 people in this website have seen lol. Its just Great
Religious satire, I love it! Gantry has an image to uphold for his flock, he has the skills to be a dynamic preacher, but how long can he keep fooling the flock because he's really a conartist.
Considered a minor classic in most circles Elmer Gantry is a strange little bit of blasphemy in that it isn't really that blasphemous. It tells the story of Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunk drifter/salesman in the early 1900s. In his youth Elmer studied to become a preacher...( read more)
Probably one of the best screenplays ever written. Lancaster makes me want to be a better man.
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