Elmer Gantry

Name: Elmer Gantry
Genre: Drama
Released: 1960
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 7.296

1960 · 146 min

Drama

★ 7.3

Tubi

Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Richard Brooks
Screenplay Richard Brooks
Director of Photography John Alton

Cast

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

Crew

Director — Richard Brooks
Screenplay — Richard Brooks
Director of Photography — John Alton

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