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Elmer Gantry

Featuring Burt Lancaster in a compelling, Oscar-winning performance, "Elmer Gantry" is unforgettable screen entertainment surging with power and excitement! Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers that he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon. Gantry converts to evangelism, joining forces with sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) re-appears, Gantry is forced to confront demons of a more worldly order - long-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a veritable Hell on Earth!

Year: 1960
Genre: Classic Drama, Save Me!, Classic Cinema
Country: USA
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger
Duration: 141 Minutes
Rating: PG - Contains violence.
7.8/10
Location in store: Classic Drama

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