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Elmer Gantry

If there was a dollar to be made—Gantry would make it … If there was a soul to be saved—Gantry would save it …

7.3(209)19602h 26m4

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.

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Status
Released
Budget
$3M
Box office
$10.4M
Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • con man
  • fraud
  • kansas, usa
  • religion
  • preacher
  • religious hypocrisy
  • traveling salesman
  • evangelist
  • revivalism
  • revival meeting

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRLos Angeles, California29 Jun 1960
    • Theatrical7 Jul 1960
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1617 Feb 1961
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical18 Mar 1975

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Elmer Gantry was released on 7 July 1960.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    1/27/2024

    7/10

    Burt Lancaster is on great form here as the eponymous quick-talking and charismatic hoover salesman who alights upon the successful industry that is "Sister Sharon" (Jean Simmons). She preaches the word of God with a piousness that he finds compelling. Not because he shares her zeal, but because he can see the impact it has on the rather sheepish population who turn up at her prayer meetings in their thousands - and …

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    Wuchak

    8/12/2024

    7/10

    **_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. …

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