Elmer Gantry (1960)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:24
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s. Burt Lancaster stars as the elusive Gantry in this charismatic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's... [More]
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy
Director: Richard Brooks
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Reviews for Elmer Gantry
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Lancaster pulls out all the stops in one of his most memorable roles as the lustful, ambitious charlatan of Sinclair Lewis's powerful novel. Full Review |
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Brooks honors the spirit of Lewis' cynical commentary on circus-type primitive exhortation with pictorial imagery that is always pungent. He also has written dialog that is frank and biting. Full Review |
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This gets progressively nastier and winds up with an impressive hellfire finish. Full Review |
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Brooks was the ultimate vulgarizer of serious literature. Full Review |
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Burt Lancaster gives one of his most memorable and zestiest performances as the lustful, charismatic evangelist charlatan in Richard Brooks' loose adaptation of Sinclair Lewis 1927 powerful novel. Full Review |
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With a host of fine performances, and a strong sense of period and place conveyed by John Alton's lush camerawork, there's still plenty to enjoy. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Hypocrisy and religion exploited! Lancaster and Shirley Jones are terrific.
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4/5 |
Still powerful expose of evangelism.
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Lancaster puts in a thrilling, Oscar-winning performance in this cynical satire on religious evangelism which was considered extremely controversial at the time of its release. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The briskly paced drama of a religious opportunist, his colleagues and his times utilizes the tools of the motion picture in expert fashion. Full Review |
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Lancaster and Simmons are scorching as the con artist and the evangelist who join forces in the 1920s Midwest. Full Review |
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