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Elmer Gantry (1960)
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7 July 1960 (USA)
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The screen has never known a man like ELMER GANTRY more
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Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a...
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Won 3 Oscars.
Another 8 wins
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10 nominations
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(6 articles)
Actor Maross Dies
(From WENN. 11 November 2009, 8:11 AM, PST)
The Golden Age Of TV Comedy Returns: Disgraced Evangelist Jim Bakker To Auction Off Episodes Of His Series
(From CinemaRetro. 8 March 2009, 4:11 AM, PDT)
(From WENN. 11 November 2009, 8:11 AM, PST)
The Golden Age Of TV Comedy Returns: Disgraced Evangelist Jim Bakker To Auction Off Episodes Of His Series
(From CinemaRetro. 8 March 2009, 4:11 AM, PDT)
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This is the movie Steve Martin was trying to make when he did "Leap of Faith"
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Burt Lancaster | ... | Elmer Gantry |
 | Jean Simmons | ... | Sister Sharon Falconer, nee Katie Jones |
 | 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 | ... | Mr. Eddington, newspaper publisher |
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146 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Sister Sharon is seen briefly outside a movie theater advertising a film. The title is not given but the stars names are given as Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, suggesting that the film is almost certainly The Sheik (1921).
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the newspaper office meeting, Elmer Gantry refers to Christ' miracle of feeding the 5,000 with five fishes and two loaves of bread. According to the Gospels, it was five loaves and two fishes.
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Clean-up man:
Mister, I've been converted five times. Billy Sunday, Reverend Biederwolf, Gypsy Smith, and twice by Sister Falconer. I get terrible drunk, and then I get good and saved. Both of them done me a powerful lot of good - gettin' drunk and gettin' saved. Well, good night.
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Referenced in A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' (2004) (V)
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Onward Christian Soldiers
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The titular character starts out as a cynical small time hustler discovering a good scam joining up with a traveling revival show, and casting his eye to the charismatic and comely lady preacher leading it.
What is really good is how the character develops, and gradually becomes a good sincere Christian, which is best seen in his interaction with the Shirley Jones character.
She is a preacher's kid who was disowned by her father before the start of the movie timeline after he caught Elmer "ramming the fear of god" into her. She has since become a prostitute, and has the opportunity to repay Elmer's earlier callous treatment.
Oh, yes, I know these people, or at least watered down real life versions of them. This movie really gets at the charismatic Christianity of the heartlands, and the strong sexual tensions running just beneath the surface. Oh, I bet Jimmy Swaggart for one knew JUST what they were getting at.