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Elmer Gantry
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Elmer Gantry is indexed among the 173 entries in Vinony's Best Supporting Actress collection. It also appears in Best Actor.
Within Vinony's link graph, Elmer Gantry is referenced by 155 other articles, and connects out to Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Motion Picture Production Code and New York Film Critics Circle.
It sits within the topics 1960 American films, 1960 drama films and 1960 English-language films.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Film · TMDB
7.3A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry
- Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer
- Arthur Kennedy as Jim Lefferts
- Dean Jagger as William L. Morgan
- Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains
- Patti Page as Sister Rachel
Themes
- based on novel or book
- con man
- fraud
- kansas, usa
- religion
- preacher
- religious hypocrisy
- traveling salesman
- evangelist
- revivalism
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
13,223 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
- Year
- 1960
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 11 wins & 14 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Richard Brooks
- Screenplay by
- Richard Brooks
- Based on
- Elmer Gantry , by Sinclair Lewis
- Produced by
- Bernard Smith
- Starring
- Burt Lancaster Jean Simmons Dean Jagger Arthur Kennedy Shirley Jones Patti Page
- Cinematography
- John Alton
- Edited by
- Marjorie Fowler
- Music by
- André Previn
- Production company
- Elmer Gantry Productions
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- June 29, 1960 ( 1960-06-29 ) (Los Angeles)
- Running time
- 146 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $5.2 million (rentals)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Elmer Gantry
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Screenwriter
- Sinclair Lewis
- Cast member
- BarBara Luna
- Composer
- André Previn
- Production company
- United Artists
- Cinematographer
- John Alton
- Narrative location
- Kansas
- Filming location
- Santa Monica
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 593759
- Performer
- André Previn
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1960-01-01
- film editor
- Marjorie Fowler
- title
- Elmer Gantry
- after a work by
- Sinclair Lewis
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 94%
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Encyclopedic overview
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American psychological drama film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, and Patti Page. An adaptation of the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, it focuses on a charismatic con man who, along with an itinerant evangelist sister, stages revival sermons throughout the Midwestern United States, taking advantage of unknowing locals.
Elmer Gantry was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1961, including Best Picture and Best Score. It won Best Actor for Lancaster, Best Supporting Actress for Jones and Best Adapted Screenplay. Jean Simmons was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama category.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elmer Gantry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.