Top billed cast

1. 

   Burt Lancaster

   Elmer Gantry

2. 

   Jean Simmons

   Sister Sharon Falconer

3. 

   Arthur Kennedy

   Jim Lefferts

4. 

   Dean Jagger

   William L. Morgan

5. 

   Shirley Jones

   Lulu Bains

6. 

   Patti Page

   Sister Rachel

7. 

   Edward Andrews

   George F. Babbitt

8. 

   John McIntire

   Rev. John Pengilly

9. 

   Hugh Marlowe

   Rev. Philip Garrison

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2024-08-12

**_The story of traveling tent revivalists in 1920’s America_**

A fast-talking salesman from Missouri (Burt Lancaster) is attracted to the troupe of a winsome evangelist (Jean Simmons). Once he proves his abilities as a charismatic preacher, he joins the "road church" show, but a woman from his past threatens to shake things up (Shirley Jones). Arthur Kennedy plays a reporter who travels with the group by train.

"Elmer Gantry" (1960) was based on less than one-fourth of the 1927 book by agnostic-turned-atheist Sinclair Lewis. It makes fundamental changes to the two main characters by p...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$3,000,000.00

Revenue
$10,400,000.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• con man
• fraud
• kansas, usa
• religion
• preacher
• religious hypocrisy
• traveling salesman
• evangelist
• revivalism
• revival meeting