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Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Barbara Luna, Barry Kelley, Bert Stevens, Budd Buster, Burt Lancaster, Charles Horvath, Charles Perry, Colin Kenny, Dale Van Sickel, Dan Riss, David McMahon, Dayton Lummis, Dean Jagger, Ed Nelson, Edward Andrews, Everett Glass, George Cisa
Category: English Movies
Release: 29 June 1960
Genres: Drama
IMDB: IMDB
Added: July 2, 2011
Description:
Elmer Gantry: Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire and damnation revivalism has attracted quite a following. Gantry uses his own quick wit and knowledge of the bible to become an indispensable part of Sister Sharon's roadshow but soon finds that his past catches up with him in the form of Lulu Bains, now a prostitute. While Gantry seeks and eventually gets forgiveness from Sharon, tragedy strikes when she finally manages to get out of her revivalist tent and opens a permanent church.