Elmer Gantry1960
Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones
Genre: Drama
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 146 minutes
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones
Genre: Drama
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 146 minutes
Brothers and sisters, can we get a witness for this woeful tale of saints and sinners? Burt Lancaster earned his only Oscar as the wide-smiling, glad-handing, soul-saving charlatan Elmer Gantry, a salesman who turns his gift for preaching into a car… more »
Jim Lefferts:
You look like a man who could use a drink.
Elmer Gantry:
You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts:
There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry:
That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts:
Amen.
Submitted by wikidude on November 05, 2019
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