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 …
19602h 26mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- usa
- con man
- fraud
- religion
- religious hypocrisy
- preacher
- kansas
- traveling salesman
- evangelist
- revivalism
- revival meeting
- kansas, usa
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 7, 1960
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- United Artists
- Cast
- Burt Lancaster,Jean Simmons,Arthur Kennedy,Dean Jagger,Shirley Jones,Patti Page,Edward Andrews,John McIntire,Hugh Marlowe,Joe Marossand 42 more
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Writer
- Richard Brooks,Sinclair Lewis
- Producer
- Bernard Smith
- Cinematography
- John Alton
- Music
- André Previn
- Budget
- $3,000,000
- Revenue
- $10,400,000
- IMDb
- tt0053793