ELMER GANTRY
Burt Lancaster, Shirley Jones, Jean Simmons
MGM/UA; Directed by Richard Brooks
Not Rated; 146 minutes; 1960
Sinclair Lewis' crusading novel exposing the phony revivalists of the 1920's has been made into an equally incisive and powerful motion picture drama. Burt Lancaster is Elmer Gantry, a smooth talking insurance salesman who sets out to make a quick fortune peddling his own particular kind of religion.