Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry1960

Director: Richard Brooks
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 »



Elmer Gantry:
I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner.

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