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 …
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 23, 2014
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Lancaster & Jean Simmons | |
Performer: | Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Patti Page, Edward Andrews & John McIntire | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Edited by | Marjorie Fowler | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
Art Direction by | Edward Carrere | |
Produced by | Bernard Smith | |
Director of Photography: | John Alton |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Richard Brooks
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones
Entertainment Reviews:
Alas! I found it crude and cumbersome, vulgar and overblown (a mistake in taste was to do it in color), and a perfect example of that having-it-both-ways irreality.
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Esquire Magazine
The title-role character, a preacher with a weakness for wild women and whisky, is more believable in scriptwriter-director Richard Brooks' film than he was in the Sinclair Lewis novel; the part is played with skill and gusto by Burt Lancaster.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
The briskly paced drama of a religious opportunist, his colleagues and his times utilizes the tools of the motion picture in expert fashion.
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New York Times
...It's still unholy fun, perfectly complemented by Andre Previn's devilish, horn-and-hymn-mixing score...
Total Film
Rating: 3/4 --
If not for the amazing performance of Burt Lancaster, the film would collapse under its own self-righteousness.
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Cinema Sight
Brooks honors the spirit of Lewis' cynical commentary on circus-type primitive exhortation with pictorial imagery that is always pungent. He also has written dialog that is frank and biting.
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Variety
Rating: B- --
Greatly enhanced by the spirited Oscar performance by Burt Lancaster.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s. Burt Lancaster stars as the elusive Gantry in this charismatic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel. When Gantry runs across a group of traveling evangelists, he charms their saintly leader, Sister Susan Falconer (Jean Simmons), and becomes her partner, preaching fire and brimstone in the packed revival tents of the hardened Midwest. Gantry's robust style and Falconer's Joan of Arc-like spirit skyrocket the two minstrels to fame and fortune as they travel with their flock waging war on sinners and speakeasies--until they preach in a big city and catch the eye of a tough prostitute (Shirley Jones) who knows that Elmer is not quite as holy as he appears. This biting portrait of the business of religion was highly innovative at the time of its release, casting a slightly tarnished light on the hustle and theatrics of traveling ministries, while analyzing the true nature of faith and redemption. Lancaster's performance as the salesman turned preacher is dynamic and highly charismatic, full of energy and robust flair.
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- Sales Rank: 23,593
- UPC: 738329139520
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