Featuring Burt Lancaster in a compelling Best Actor Oscar-winning performance, Elmer Gantry is unforgettable screen entertainment "surging with power and excitement" (Variety)! Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers that he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, Gantry converts to evangelism. Joining forces with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) re-appears, Gantry is forced to confront demons of a more worldly order -- long-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a veritable Hell on Earth!

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Elmer Gantry (1960)

Unrated

Drama · 2h 26m · 6/29/1960

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The screen has never known a man like ELMER GANTRY

Description

Status

Released

Language

English

Country

United States

Production Company

Elmer Gantry Productions

Budget

$3,000,000

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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 (as Ed Andrews)

John McIntire

Rev. John Pengilly

Hugh Marlowe

Rev. Philip Garrison

Joe Maross

Pete

Philip Ober

Rev. Planck

Barry Kelley

Police Capt. Holt

Wendell Holmes

Rev. Ulrich

Dayton Lummis

Eddington

Harry Antrim

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

Larry J. Blake

Mac - Bartender (uncredited)

Phil Bloom

Cornerman (uncredited)

Paul Bradley

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Peter Brocco

Benny - Photographer (uncredited)

Budd Buster

Valet (uncredited)

Mushy Callahan

Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)

George Cisar

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

Bing Conley

Man Destroying Revival Tent (uncredited)

Tony Dante

Congregation Member (uncredited)

George DeNormand

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Ralph Dumke

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

George Ford

Reporter (uncredited)

Sally Fraser

Prostitute (uncredited)

Raoul Freeman

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Everett Glass

Rev. Brown (uncredited)

Joseph Glick

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Sol Gorss

Hobo in Boxcar (uncredited)

Mary Adams Hayes

Salvation Army Worker (uncredited)

Jack Henderson

Man Destroying Revival Tent (uncredited)

Jimmie Horan

Choir Member (uncredited)

Charles Horvath

Hobo in Boxcar (uncredited)

Rex Ingram

Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)

Colin Kenny

Extra at Revival Meeting (uncredited)

Johnny Kern

Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)

Mike Lally

Radio Station Official (uncredited)

Joanna Lancaster

Child in Audience (uncredited)

Sighle Lancaster

Child in Audience (uncredited)

Norman Leavitt

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

Robert P. Lieb

Lincoln Police Captain (uncredited)

Barbara Luna

Prostitute (uncredited)

John Marlin

Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)

Mathew McCue

Reporter (uncredited)

John McKee

Photographer / Reporter (uncredited)

David McMahon

(uncredited)

William Meader

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Charles Morton

Man Destroying Revival Tent (uncredited)

Ed Nelson

Man on Phone at Sister Sharon Headquarters (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Train Conductor (uncredited)

Gloria Pall

Girl in Brothel (uncredited)

Milton Parsons

Revivalist (uncredited)

Bob Perry

Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)

Jack Perry

Man at Revival Meeting (uncredited)

Paul Power

Congregation Member (uncredited)

John Qualen

Sam - Storekeeper (uncredited)

Jean Ransome

Congregation Member (uncredited)

John Rice

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Dan Riss

Radio Announcer (uncredited)

John Roy

Choir Member (uncredited)

Max Showalter

Deaf Man (uncredited)

Leslie Sketchley

Choir Member (uncredited)

Mabel Smaney

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Marjorie Stapp

Lady in Red on Christmas Eve (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Choir Member (uncredited)

Jack Stoney

Revival Tent Roustabout (uncredited)

Ken Terrell

Blind Man (uncredited)

Blaine Turner

Congregation Member (uncredited)

Dale Van Sickel

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

Ray Walker

Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)

Rodrigo Cardoso

Rev. Phillips (uncredited)

Guy Wilkerson

Janitor in Revival Tent (uncredited)

Jean Willes

Prostitute (uncredited)

Crew

Richard Brooks

Director

Richard Brooks

Writer

Sinclair Lewis

Writer

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