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 …
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.
- 7.3
- 1960
- Released
- 2h 26m
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons
Sister Sharon Falconer
Arthur Kennedy
Jim Lefferts
Dean Jagger
William L. Morgan
Shirley Jones
Lulu Bains
Patti Page
Sister Rachel
Edward Andrews
George F. Babbitt
John McIntire
Rev. John Pengilly
Hugh Marlowe
Rev. Philip Garrison
Joe Maross
Pete
Philip Ober
Reverend Planck
Barry Kelley
Police Captain Holt
Wendell Holmes
Reverend Ulrich
Dayton Lummis
Eddington
Colin Kenny
Extra at Revival Meeting
William H. O'Brien
Train Conductor
Bert Stevens
Choir Member
John Qualen
Sam - Storekeeper
Rex Ingram
Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
Sally Fraser
Prostitute
Robert P. Lieb
Lincoln Police Captain
Larry J. Blake
Mac - Bartender (uncredited)
Peter Brocco
Benny - Photographer (uncredited)
George Cisar
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Ralph Dumke
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Everett Glass
Rev. Brown (uncredited)Sol Gorss
Hobo in Boxcar (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Dan Riss
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Max Showalter
Deaf Man (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Michael Whalen
Rev. Phillips (uncredited)
Jean Willes
Prostitute (uncredited)Raoul Freeman
Congregation Member (uncredited)
Harry Antrim
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)Phil Bloom
Cornerman (uncredited)Paul Bradley
Congregation Member (uncredited)
Claudia Bryar
Religious woman collecting money in opening scene (uncredited)George DeNormand
Congregation Member (uncredited)George Ford
Reporter (uncredited)Johnny Kern
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Mike Lally
Radio Station Official (uncredited)
BarBara Luna
Prostitute (uncredited)William Meader
Congregation Member (uncredited)
Charles Morton
Man Destroying Revival Tent (uncredited)
Milton Parsons
Revivalist (uncredited)Bob Perry
Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)
Jack Stoney
Revival Tent Roustabout (uncredited)
Ken Terrell
Blind Man (uncredited)
Ray Walker
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)Guy Way
Man at Fire (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Janitor in Revival Tent (uncredited)
Released
en
$3,000,000.00
$10,400,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #con man
- #fraud
- #kansas, usa
- #religion
- #preacher
- #religious hypocrisy
- #traveling salesman
- #evangelist
- #revivalism
- #revival meeting
Reviews
**_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 t
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 th