Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
- based on novel or book
- con man
- fraud
- kansas
- usa
- religion
- preacher
- religious hypocrisy
- traveling salesman
- evangelist
- revivalism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons
Sister Sharon Falconer
Arthur Kennedy
Jim Lefferts
Dean Jagger
William L. Morgan
- Shirley Jones — Lulu Bains
- Patti Page — Sister Rachel
- Edward Andrews — George F. Babbitt
- John McIntire — Rev. John Pengilly
- Hugh Marlowe — Rev. Philip Garrison
- Joe Maross — Pete
- Philip Ober — Reverend Planck
- Barry Kelley — Police Captain Holt
- Wendell Holmes — Reverend Ulrich
- Dayton Lummis — Eddington
- Colin Kenny — Extra at Revival Meeting
- Directed
- Richard Brooks
- Written
- Richard Brooks
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 200 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists
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