Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

7.3IMDb Score
Released:1960-07-07
Genre:Drama
Duration:146 min
Director:Richard Brooks
Actors:Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones
Production:United Artists

Overview:

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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