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Elmer Gantry (1960)
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Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike... See full summary » Director:Richard Brooks |
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Jim Lefferts
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William L. Morgan
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Sister Rachel
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George F. Babbitt
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Rev. John Pengilly
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Rev. Philip Garrison
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Pete
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Rev. Planck
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Barry Kelley | ... |
Police Capt. Holt
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Wendell Holmes | ... |
Rev. Ulrich
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Dayton Lummis | ... |
Eddington
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Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué 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. Written by garykmcd
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From the book that shook a nation with its sledgehammer theme... From a Nobel Prize-winning author... comes the raging story of the man who used the Holy Bible- and broke every rule in it! See more »Genres:
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(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Elmer Gantry, le charlatan See more »Filming Locations:
Columbia Pictures Ranch - 411 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA See more »Box Office
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$3,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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"We believe that certain aspects of Revivalism can bear examination- that the conduct of some revivalists makes a mockery of the traditional beliefs and practices of organized Christianity!
We believe that everyone has a right to worship according to his conscience, but- Freedom of Religion is not license to abuse the faith of the people!
However, due to the highly controversial nature of this film, we strongly urge you to prevent impressionable children from seeing it!" See more »
(1814) (uncredited)
Music by John Stafford Smith
Lyrics by Francis Scott Key
Sung by the audience at a Zenith revival meeting See more »
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To keep word from leaking out as to how the novel would be adapted to the screen, only the film's six major stars were given access to the complete screenplay. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: Sister Sharon is seen briefly outside a movie theater advertising a film. The title is not given but the stars names are given as Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, suggesting that the film is almost certainly _The Sheik (1921)_. But then in the scene with the newspapers in Sister Sharon's office, the headline on one is about death of Isadora Duncan, suggesting it was sometime shortly after Sept. 14, 1927 (date of her death). Since Zenith, Neb., wasn't exactly in the mainstream, it seems more logical that the movie house was playing an old movie since the first talkie, _The Jazz Singer (1927)_, wasn't released until a month later. So, the time line would place it in 1927, the year the book first was published. See more »Quotes
Lulu Bains: Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!See more »
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Scrolled before the opening credits:"We believe that certain aspects of Revivalism can bear examination- that the conduct of some revivalists makes a mockery of the traditional beliefs and practices of organized Christianity!
We believe that everyone has a right to worship according to his conscience, but- Freedom of Religion is not license to abuse the faith of the people!
However, due to the highly controversial nature of this film, we strongly urge you to prevent impressionable children from seeing it!" See more »
Soundtracks
"The Star Spangled Banner"(1814) (uncredited)
Music by John Stafford Smith
Lyrics by Francis Scott Key
Sung by the audience at a Zenith revival meeting See more »
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