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Elmer Gantry: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger. A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
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Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page .
31 de out. de 2013 · Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) é um caixeiro-viajante oportunista, imoral e alcoólatra que é convertido pela Irmã Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) e passa a viajar em sua companhia pelos...
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8 de out. de 2012 · Elmer Gantry - Shirley Jones & Burt Lancaster. classicfilmrules. 39.4K subscribers. Subscribed. 400. 114K views 11 years ago. Shirley Jone's Oscar winning performance in Elmer Gantry....
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The 1960 film of the same name starring Burt Lancaster as Gantry and Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer. A 1970 Broadway musical adaptation, titled Gantry , opened and closed on the same night, February 14, 1970.
Lancaster played the title role in Elmer Gantry (1960), written and directed by Richard Brooks for United Artists. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance.
Based on the Sinclair Lewis novel, which blew up a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927, Elmer Gantry stars Burt Lancaster in the title role as a hard-drinking appliance salesman in the Mid-West who turns revivalist preacher – although his yen for wine, women, and money is reflected in his many conquests in violation of the ...
