Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster: DVD Cover

    Elmer Gantry Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy

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    • DVD Release Date: 03/06/2001
    • Original Release: 1960
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 9,680

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    Original theatrical trailer; English: mono; French: mono; Spanish: mono; French and Spanish subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Scene Selections
    0. Scene Selections
    1. Warning/Title [2:32]
    2. Fast Talker [12:27]
    3. Sharon's Big Tent [10:58]
    4. Charm A Charmer [6:54]
    5. Chapter 5 [12:09]
    6. Chapter 6 [6:20]
    7. Chapter 7 [5:59]
    8. Chapter 8 [:32]
    9. Chapter 9 [15:13]
    10. Chapter 10 [7:04]
    11. Chapter 11 [7:54]
    12. Chapter 12 [5:33]
    13. Chapter 13 [7:07]
    14. Chapter 14 [11:06]
    15. Chapter 15 [3:47]
    16. Chapter 16 [7:11]

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    Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon realizes her dream of building her own enormous tabernacle. These ambitions are put in jeopardy when a prostitute (Oscar-winning Shirley Jones), a former minister's daughter who'd been deflowered by Gantry years earlier, lures Gantry into a compromising situation and has photographs taken. It took several years for any Hollywood studio to take a chance with Sinclair Lewis' novel, and when it finally did arrive on the screen, producer/director Richard Brooks was compelled to downplay some of the more "sacrilegious" passages in the original. Also appearing in Elmer Gantry are Arthur Kennedy as an H.L. Mencken-style atheistic journalist, and Edward Andrews as George Babbitt, a character borrowed from another Sinclair Lewis novel. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    February 16, 2004: You can be sure, Elmer Gantry is technically a sinner. He lies, drunks and perverts women, as any bad man, but I think what makes him a sinner is he has chosen a particular activity for deceiving people: religion, this is any class of religion more or less related with Christianity, because these little details doesn?t worry to Gantry. However, a detail saves him: he defrauds people, but these people wants to be defrauded. He also gives false hopes and illusions, but at last, although false, these are hope and illusions and there?s no much of that in life. Summing up, Elmer Gantry, who has true fire in his tongue, in some sense doesn?t deceive anyone who doesn?t want to be deceived and never without defrauding himself, because Gantry is a liar, but he loves people he lies, and for that I think there?s a place for him in Heaven. Perhaps only a dark place, but I can?t condemn Elmer Gantry, simply let God judge him.