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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elmer_Gantry_(film)Elmer Gantry (film) - Wikipedia

    Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page .

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  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0053793Elmer Gantry (1960) - IMDb

    Elmer Gantry: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger. A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.

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    • Richard Brooks
    • 1960-08-26

  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0053793Elmer Gantry (1960) - Plot - IMDb

    Salesman Elmer Gantry, salesman teams up with evangelist Sister Sharon Falconer to sell religion to 1920s America. They make enough money to build a temple, and Sister Sharon falls for Elmer. He is tested by temptation and almost capitulates, but is then wrongly accused by the jilted temptress.

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  6. www.britannica.com › topic › Elmer-Gantry-filmElmer Gantry | Religious satire, Prohibition, Burt Lancaster

    Elmer Gantry, American film drama, released in 1960, that was an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s novel of the same name and featured Academy Award-winning performances by Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones. Lancaster portrayed the title character, a charlatan evangelist who joins a ministry headed by.

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elmer_GantryElmer Gantry - Wikipedia

    Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of the United States in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it.

  8. www.tcm.com › tcmdb › titleElmer Gantry (1960) - Turner Classic Movies

    Elmer Gantry -- (Movie Clip) Sister Sharon Gantry (Burt Lancaster) drops into the revival tent for his first experience of the phenomenal Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) in Elmer Gantry, 1960, from the Sinclair Lewis novel.

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    When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a ...

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