Elmer Gantry (Blu-ray)
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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Blu-ray 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:
Brooks was the ultimate vulgarizer of serious literature.
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Chicago Reader
With a host of fine performances, and a strong sense of period and place conveyed by John Alton's lush camerawork, there's still plenty to enjoy.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
Lancaster pulls out all the stops in one of his most memorable roles as the lustful, ambitious charlatan of Sinclair Lewis's powerful novel.
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TV Guide
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
Rating: 80/100 --
The film pulls few punches in its story of the hypocrisy, materialism, and opportunism at the heart of the evangelical world of Bible-thumping barnstorming revival troupes
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Slant Magazine
Rating: B- --
Greatly enhanced by the spirited Oscar performance by Burt Lancaster.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The whole thing bristles with rather superficial symbolism and even Jean Simmons's radiant, and in this case hearty, charm as an Aimee Macpherson figure.
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The Spectator
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 46,630
- UPC: 738329139629
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