Elmer Gantry (1960)

Movie Details

Original Title Elmer Gantry

Original Language EN

Budget $3,000,000

Revenue $10,400,000

Status Released

Popularity 1.0

Cast

Burt Lancaster

Elmer Gantry

Popularity: 1.2

Jean Simmons

Sister Sharon Falconer

Popularity: 1.2

Arthur Kennedy

Jim Lefferts

Popularity: 2.3

Dean Jagger

William L. Morgan

Popularity: 0.8

Shirley Jones

Lulu Bains

Popularity: 0.8

Patti Page

Sister Rachel

Popularity: 0.7

Edward Andrews

George F. Babbitt

Popularity: 0.5

John McIntire

Rev. John Pengilly

Popularity: 0.8

Hugh Marlowe

Rev. Philip Garrison

Popularity: 0.5

Joe Maross

Pete

Popularity: 0.8

Philip Ober

Reverend Planck

Popularity: 4.5

Barry Kelley

Police Captain Holt

Popularity: 0.8

Key Crew

Director Richard Brooks

Screenplay Richard Brooks

Producer Bernard Smith

Editor Marjorie Fowler

Production

United Artists

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Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jan 27, 2024

Burt Lancaster is on great form here as the eponymous quick-talking and charismatic hoover salesman who alights upon the successful industry that is "Sister Sharon" (Jean Simmons). She preaches the word of God with a piousness that he finds compelling. Not because he shares her zeal, but because he ... Read more

Wuchak 7/10

Aug 12, 2024

**_The story of traveling tent revivalists in 1920’s America_** A fast-talking salesman from Missouri (Burt Lancaster) is attracted to the troupe of a winsome evangelist (Jean Simmons). Once he proves his abilities as a charismatic preacher, he joins the "road church" show, but a woman from his ... Read more