- Published: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., c2001.
- Year Published: 2001
- Description: 1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Language: English
- Format: DVD
- Rated:
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0792849159 :
- 027616858924
Series
Additional Credits
- Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992.
- Smith, Bernard.
- Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994.
- Simmons, Jean, 1929- .
- Jagger, Dean, 1903-1991.
- Jones, Shirley, 1934- .
- Page, Patti.
- Kennedy, Arthur, 1914-1990.
- Previn, André, 1929- .
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
- United Artists Corporation.
- MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
Subjects
- Lewis, Sinclair, -- 1885-1951 -- Film and video adaptations.
- American fiction -- Film and video adaptations. -- 20th century
- Evangelists -- Drama.
- Evangelistic work -- Drama.
- Avarice -- Drama.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Middle West -- Drama.
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Elmer Gantry
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Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.66:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
Includes the original theatrical trailer.
Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Patti Page.
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
DVD ; Widescreen, Dolby digital.
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Burned in my brain
This movie is riveting. The title character is so developed and yet continually mysterious: as a viewer, you really don't know if he believes in his own act! It was only after I came across _Elmer Gantry_ that I could understand why Jack Lemmon had NOT won the 1960 Oscar (for _Some Like It Hot_). Burt Lancaster gives a performance of a lifetime. To think I took this movie home initially because I figured that, with Lancaster and Jean Simmons, it'd just be "easy on the eyes"! There's nothing easy about the storyline, though. _Elmer Gantry_ makes you think, and feel, and be compeletely unashamed to wonder open-mouthed at what will happen next.
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