ELMER GANTRY - BLU

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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: 2:27
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie