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Elmer Gantry

1960

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PG-13

027616858924

7.7

14,410

Drama

USA | English | Color | 02:26

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Featuring Burt Lancaster in a compelling Best Actor Oscar-winning performance, Elmer Gantry is unforgettable screen entertainment "surging with power and excitement" (Variety)!

Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers that he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, Gantry converts to evangelism. Joining forces with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) re-appears, Gantry is forced to confront demons of a more worldly order -- long-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a veritable Hell on Earth!

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	Burt Lancaster	Elmer Gantry
	Jean Simmons	Sister Sharon Falconer
	Arthur Kennedy	Jim Lefferts
	Dean Jagger	William L. Morgan
	Shirley Jones	Lulu Bains
	Patti Page	Sister Rachel
	Edward Andrews	George F. Babbitt
	John McIntire	Rev. John Pengilly
	Hugh Marlowe	Rev. Philip Garrison
	Joe Maross	Pete
	Philip Ober	Rev. Planck
	Barry Kelley	Police Capt. Holt
	Wendell Holmes	Rev. Ulrich
	Dayton Lummis	Eddington
	Harry Antrim	Salesman in Saloon
	Larry J. Blake	Mac - Bartender
	Phil Bloom	Cornerman
	Paul Bradley	Congregation Member
	Peter Brocco	Benny - Photographer
	Claudia Bryar	Religious woman collecting money in opening scene
	Budd Buster	Valet
	Mushy Callahan	Boxing Match Spectator
	George Cisar	Salesman in Saloon
	Bing Conley	Man Destroying Revival Tent
	Tony Dante	Congregation Member

Crew View all

Director	Richard Brooks
Writer	Richard Brooks, Sinclair Lewis
Producer	Bernard Smith
Musician	André Previn
Photography	John Alton

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Edition details

Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)
Audio Tracks	FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC] SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	French \| Spanish
Layers	Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date	Mar 06, 2001