Pros: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Jones, Jean Simmons, Supporting Cast Cons: Story is dated for today's tastes; ending seems tacked on.
Elmer Gantry (1960) "Love is the morning and the evening star." Elmer Gantry “The first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!” Lulu Baines Burt Lancaster has long been a ...
Pros: Cast, strong music score, vivid images Cons: a little long
The movie of Sinclair Lewis's muckraking 1927 exposé of hypocrisy on the Christian revival circuit Elmer Gantry was, apparently, still controversial in 1960. Although I don't think that there are revivals in circus tents any more, vast sums of ...
Pros: great performance by Lancaster. Interesting character studies. Cons: A contrived ending
Elmer Gantry, based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis, depicts some preachers as fund raisers who are in the entertainment field as much as they are in the business of winning souls. Getting more seats into church pews, after all, translates to bigger...
Pros: Great dialog masterfully delivered Cons: None
Burt Lancaster stars as the larger than life flim-flam tent evangelist, Elmer Gantry in this 1960 film adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel. The physically impressive Lancaster is perfectly cast in this role. He is said to have confided to...
Pros: message, Cons: Lancaster's laugh, length, story loses focus
Any film that starts off with a warning not to let impressionable children watch it had better be extremely confronting and powerful. `Elmer Gantry’ isn’t. That warning is the first thing that lets it down. It raises our expectations for something,...
Pros: cast, direction, sets Cons: characters, story
"Elmer Gantry" was a controversial film when it was released. So controversial, that no studio would finance it. Based on a Sinclair Lewis novel, preachers are often depicted as cynical, fundraising businessmen who consider themselves to be in...
Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting a...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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