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Elmer Gantry(Movie, 1960)

2h 26min | Genre: Drama
Elmer GantryRating: 3.7/5 (with 6363 votes)
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page. 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 in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama category. The film's plot overlaps with less than 100 pages of the nove... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Elmer Gantry

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

About Elmer Gantry

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Kansas
Based on the work of: Sinclair Lewis ("Elmer Gantry")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/07/1960
Director: Richard Brooks
Producer: Bernard Smith
Film Editor: Marjorie Fowler
Director of Photography: John Alton
Composer: André Previn
Performer: André Previn
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Elmer Gantry - Gott ist im Geschäft"
"El fuego y la palabra"
Budget: 3,000,000 USD
Revenue: 10,400,000 USD (= 347%)

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