Summary:
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon realizes her dream of building her own ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Burt Lancaster - (Elmer Gantry)
Jean Simmons - (Sister Sharon Falconer)
Dean Jagger - (William L. Morgan)
Arthur Kennedy - (Jim Lefferts)
Shirley Jones - (Lulu Bains)
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Review:
This once scandalous adaptation of the trenchant Sinclair Lewis novel may now seem a little dated, but it still has much to recommend it. It 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, an industry that professes to be about spi... Continue >>

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