Elmer Gantry
If there was a dollar to be made—Gantry would make it … If there was a soul to be saved—Gantry would save it …
A 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.
- Year: 1960
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: United Artists
- Keyword: based on novel or book, con man, fraud, kansas, usa, religion, preacher, religious hypocrisy, traveling salesman, evangelist, revivalism
- Director: Richard Brooks
- Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page