Elmer Gantry
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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Drama
1960
146 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Elmer Gantry
- Duration : 146 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Richard Brooks (screenplay), Sinclair Lewis (from the novel by)
- Directors : Richard Brooks min
- Imdb : 7.9 (7484 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.9 (3296 votes)
- Actors : Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger
Movie Storyline
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.