![]() The church at the end is highly remarkable and realistic. The script is filled with wit and the dialogue keeps moving. The preaching is Wise Blood is highly similar, and the cult like setting in The Master. Elmer also reminds me of John Candy's character in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. During Gantry's ramblings, I always saw the resemblance to Network. It's clear to see how much this film inspired. Best Actor Burt Lancaster stars as an unscrupulous Bible-thumping evangelist barnstorming through the 1920s Midwest, and Best Supporting Actress Shirley Jones. Everywhere the salesman Elmer Gantry goes people think he's a preacher, and really he always was. ![]() An early is where Elmer goes into a black church, even as the farthest thing from a spiritual man, or a singer, I wanted to stand up and sing with them. The film, while perverted, is usually colorful and light filled. There was a lengthy warning at the beginning that the content may offend. And this film vulgar, especially for the time. Overall, your patience with this film will depend on your reaction to Lancaster's antics and the film's thesis.Įlmer Gantry opens with a short shot of chapter 1 of the novel, I'm not sure if this implies a loyal reproduction, but since one of the criticisms I heard of this film is that it vulgarizes the novel, than it's probably not. It doesn't suggest that religion is bullshit because we see a proper refutation in the person of well-meaning religious people, but it does say that people are no more easily manipulated than when they are are pushed by either faith or their genitals. The film's satire pillories ignorance and theft more than it levels its glass at religious fervor. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of. ![]() The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Jean Simmons, always demure, also gives a strong, subtle performance as Sister Sharon Falconer, a well-meaning but manipulated revivalist. 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. He rises to the challenge of the perfect part for his talents. A snake-oil preacher woos a revivalist, and together they build a following, but will his dishonesty hurt their partnership more than his charisma helps their cause?īurt Lancaster's finest performance showcases his over-the-top antics and his remarkably seductive charm and his ability to convey a soulful depth of character.
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