Elmer Gantry
1960, NR, 145 min. Directed by Richard Brooks. Starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Fri., June 16, 2000
This screenplay (which won an Oscar for writer-director Brooks) is definitely a Hollywoodized version of the original novel by Sinclair Lewis. Nevertheless, Lancaster and Simmons are scorching as the con artist and the evangelist who join forces in the 1920s Midwest. Lancaster and Jones also won Oscars.
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Marjorie Baumgarten, May 18, 2000
Elmer Gantry, Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons