Elmer Gantry (1960)2h26
Drama
Director Richard Brooks (7.4 avg)
Also directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In Cold Blood, The Professionals, and 22 more
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
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Cast
Burt Lancaster
Jean Simmons
Arthur Kennedy
Dean Jagger
Shirley Jones
Patti Page
Edward Andrews