Elmer Gantry

In "Elmer Gantry," Burt Lancaster gives one of the all-time great screen performances. Lancaster's performance is so rich, so real, that the viewer knows this man, knows what Gantry smells like (sweat and eau de cologne) and what he eats (big... Full review

From the exceptionally talented pen of noted author Sinclair Lewis comes this entertaining story of a fast-talking, yarn-spinning vacuum salesman with the natural gift of persuasion. In his ever lustful sights is a voluptuous female preacher. In order to conquer... Full review

It took a long time before I watched this movie on VHS. I had boycotted it for years, thinking it was too anti-Christian to support with my money, either renting or buying it. Finally, in the summer of 2005 I... Full review

Elmer Gantry the novel came out in 1925 and it took 35 years to get it to the screen. But it certainly was worth the wait. The movie provided Burt Lancaster, Shirley Jones, and Richard Brooks all with Oscars and... Full review

This film is not only good; it misses being great by a narrow margin. With a long line of charismatic cinematic rogues to his credit, Burt Lancaster pulls off a barnstorming performance as Elmer Gantry, the salesman turned opportunistic evangelist... Full review

"Elmer Gantry" is an amazing film that does not seem dated at all, having lost none of its bite or appeal with the passing of time. Taken from the classic Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name, director Richard Brooks... Full review

For some reason Richard Brooks seemed to think of himself as the man best suited to turning great novels and plays into films, but if the results were at best entertaining ("The Brothers Karamazov", "Cat on a hot tin roof")... Full review

And there was light---9/10.All you need to know about the character of Elmer Gantry is neatly summed up in the first 10 minutes of the film. The film opens as we see Gantry holding court around a table in a... Full review

1960 seems an odd year to be adapting a Sinclair Lewis classic of the 1920s, and not only keeping it in period (albeit with anachronistic production design and music) but dragging in George Babbitt from another Lewis opus. The author's... Full review

"Elmer Gantry" can be considered the quintessential exploration into the omnipresent duality existing between a person's religious faith and simultaneous character defects. Burt Lancaster is bold and provocative as the title character who is preaching to you one moment and... Full review

This week's guest is the screenwriter Ian David. You may remember his splendid true crime dramas, Blue Murder , Joh's Jury , and Police Crop . ... Full Article

Travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) is as immoral as he is handsome. When he comes across a revival meeting and discovers that a man can hustle money as easily in a tent-show as in a bar, he is happy... ... Full Article

August 16, 2007 12:07 AM Well, after reading Karen Armstrong's "History of God", I was pushed to consuming everything I could from the Rabbis to mysticism, Paul Tillich, and on... ... Full Article

Last year we were treated to two movies about Truman Capote writing the book from which this film was made - Capote and Infamous. I cannot imagine a movie like this being made in 1967. ... Full Article

Elmer Gantry: Salesman, seducer, seminarian or synthesis? Appearing in the first year of one of America's most socially, politically and artistically tumultuous decades, Richard Brooks' 1960 film Elmer Gantry is often considered the advance phalanx in that decade's assault on... ... Full Article