ELMER GANTRY (1960)

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• Release Year: 1960
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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!
• Cast: Burt Lancaster; Jean Simmons; Arthur Kennedy; Dean Jagger; Shirley Jones; Patti Page; Edward Andrews; John McIntire; Hugh Marlowe; Joe Maross; Philip Ober; Barry Kelley; Wendell Holmes; Dayton Lummis; Harry Antrim; Larry J. Blake; Peter Brocco; Budd Buster; George Cisar; Ralph Dumke; Sally Fraser; Everett Glass; Sol Gorss; Mary Adams Hayes; Charles Horvath; Rex Ingram; Colin Kenny; Mike Lally; Norman Leavitt; Robert P. Lieb; Barbara Luna; John McKee; David McMahon; Ed Nelson; William H. O'Brien; Gloria Pall; Milton Parsons; Charles Perry; John Qualen; Dan Riss; Max Showalter; Marjorie Stapp; Bert Stevens; Jack Stoney; Ken Terrell; Dale Van Sickel; Ray Walker; Michael Whalen; Guy Wilkerson; Jean Willes; Richard Brooks
• Director: Richard Brooks
• Runtime: 0
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie