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	Elmer Gantry/Brian W. Fairbanks-Writer/Movie Reviews from Movienutz
		Gantry is a boisterous, womanizing, and frequently intoxicated divinity student who is defrocked as a minister after seducing a deacon’s daughter.
		Gantry, not given to introspection, never lets his conscience deter him from seeking the rewards of the flesh at the same time he praises Jesus.
		Elmer in the novel may be shallow and difficult to relate to, but so is Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Bakker, not to mention the average reader of The National Enquirer.
	www.angelfire.com /oh2/writer/elmergantry.html (580 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Elmer Gantry
		Elmer Gantry is the story of a young roughneck who abandons his early ambition to become a lawyer and embarks on a career in the ministry.
		Elmer is ordained a Baptist minister and licensed to preach after two years in the seminary, but he fails to graduate when he is dismissed after seducing a young woman and going on a drunken spree.
		Elmer is nearly defeated by a husband and wife who entrap him in a compromising situation and then attempt to flmail him, but he is saved by a clever lawyer and returns victorious to his congregation.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5407 (722 words)

	Elmer Gantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elmer Gantry shook hands with a good grip, he looked at all the more aged sisters as though he were moved to give them a holy kiss.
		Brother Elmer Gantry said the right things about the weather, and by luck or inspiration it was to the most acidly devout man in Boone County that he quoted a homicidal text from Malachi.
		Elmer the bold, Elmer the enterprising, went clumping off to his room, and solemnly he undressed, wistfully he stood by the window, his soul riding out on the darkness to incomprehensible destinations.
	www.unique-design.net /library/sacred/story/elmer.htm (3193 words)

	Elmer Gantry
		Gantry is better than these modern TV types, because he's actually intelligent and believes on some level what he says.
		Gantry is a small time travelling salesman who spends his time in bars telling dirty jokes to keep the buyers laughing and in the mood to buy the vacuum cleaners that they'll never be able to move.
		Even when Elmer uses cheap emotionalism to stir up the town against him, the reporter refuses to accept the pictures that Lulu is peddling, because in his mind it isn't news.
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	Elmer Gantry: Theatre: Joseph Bowen: CenterstageChicago.com
		Elmer Gantry, based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel by Sinclair Lewis, was later made into a powerful film which won four 1960 Academy Awards.
		Elmer Gantry (the very talented Tom Zemon) happens upon Sister Sharon Falconer (a captivating Kerry OMaley) and her travelling salvation show in Lincoln, Nebraska and goes about insinuating himself into the show, and into the bed of Sister Sharon.
		Gantry sees exactly whats happening, that this is nothing more than a moneymaking venture for Blanchard, and with the help of his former theology classmate Frank Shallard (David Studwell) goes about trying to expose the scheme for what it is, with deadly consequences.
	centerstage.net /theatre/articles/elmer-gantry.html (620 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Elmer Gantry
		Elmer really wasn't acting — that was me." The film opens in the midst of Gantry's life as a traveling salesman — a man full of lust, outrageous behavior, and the gift of persuasion.
		Elmer is a drunk, a womanizer, and a gambler, but with a penchant for old-time Christianity.
		Gantry's outrageousness is balanced by Lancaster in subdued scenes where he lets the emotions play subtly across his face.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/e/elmergantry.q.shtml (456 words)

	Elmer Gantry Movie: Elmer Gantry DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elmer Gantry is a charming, fast-talking con, working the road as a traveling salesman in the 1920s.
		When Gantry runs across a group of traveling evangelists, he charms their saintly leader, Sister Susan Falconer (Jean Simmons), and becomes her partner, preaching fire and brimstone in the packed revival tents of the hardened Midwest.
		Elmer becomes her smooth-talking preaching sidekick, plagiarizing speeches to promote himself above all else as he successfully exploits the folks of America's Corn Belt.
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	ELMER GANTRY
		"The Gantry we see now is not ordained, Baptist, Methodist or any other sect, but an expert spieler and a lusty, ribald drummer who sees a good thing in Sister Sharon Falconer's evangelical troupe and cons his way into her tent-tabernacle, her graces, and her heart.
		Elmer Gantry it is made authentic and engrossing.
		Her love of Gantry and death in the climactic conflagration that destroys the Waters of Jordan tabernacle is a pointed and poignant lesson.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/god/elmergantry1.htm (796 words)

	Elmer Gantry (1960)
		Elmer Gantry (1960) is an entertaining melodrama with memorable performances.
		Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) is a huckster who sells shoeshines and vacuum cleaners.
		The opportunistic Gantry becomes infatuated by touring tent ministry evangelist-healer, the beautiful, pure, and dedicated Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), and she is charmed by him as well: "You're amusing and you smell like a real man." He joins her tent ministry, and becomes her lover.
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	Amazon.com: Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics (Paperback)): Books: Sinclair Lewis,Mark Schorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elmer will use this passage as a standby for flowery sermons in the future, not of course telling his audience that he stole it from that enemy of fundamentalism, Ingersoll.
		Elmer is of course very secular in his private relationship with these wealthy people (though he manages to avoid consuming alcohol when he associates with them).
		Elmer is complex, a disgusting and cruel hypocrite to be sure, but also someone who, while quite without any decency or much intelligence, feels genuine awe at the mysteries of fundamentalist religion and believes its doctrines, however much he violates them.
	www.amazon.com /Elmer-Gantry-Signet-Classics-Paperback/dp/0451522516 (2621 words)

	Elmer Gantry - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons).
		Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Sister Sharon's operation rises to fame and fortune, enough so that Sharon realizes her dream of building her own enormous tabernacle.
		Also appearing in Elmer Gantry are Arthur Kennedy as an H.L. Mencken-style atheistic journalist, and Edward Andrews as George Babbitt, a character borrowed from another Sinclair Lewis novel.
	movies.aol.com /movie/elmer-gantry/4010/synopsis (174 words)

	Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
		By this time Elmer, influenced by the music of John Cage, was making experimental taped backing sounds and using signal generators on stage in the act.
		This would clearly have been ridiculous as I was already known as Elmer Gantry and the band was largely know for its riotous, envelope-pushing stage presence, not for electro-folk.
		Elmer Gantry later appeared in the Seventies in Stretch singing the hit single "Why Did You Do It?" Stretch released four albums and some singles on the "Anchor" label.
	www.marmalade-skies.co.uk /elmer.htm (1134 words)

	Amazon.com: Elmer Gantry: DVD: Burt Lancaster,Jean Simmons,Arthur Kennedy,Dean Jagger,Shirley Jones,Patti Page,Edward ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gantry is a showman, pure and simple, and while he doesn't fool true-believer Sister Sharon, he gives her a few object lessons in playing the crowd.
		Gantry may have many faults but he is a good man. He is kind to the prostitute, played by Shirley Jones, even after she has tried to destroy him.
		Elmer Gantry truly represents a lot of the tele-evangelists that have come and gone over the last 50 years or so as does Sister Falconer.
	www.amazon.com /Elmer-Gantry-Burt-Lancaster/dp/B000056HEE (1648 words)

	Elmer Gantry (1960) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Elmer Gantry" is an amazing film that does not seem dated at all, having lost none of its bite or appeal with the passing of time.
		Gantry is an over-the-top opportunistic traveling salesman who teams up with evangelist Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) to promote religion in 1920's America.
		Gantry turns out to be the perfect publicity compliment to Sister Sharon, who, unlike him, is a true believer.
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	eBay - VHS: Elmer Gantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elmer Gantry (1960) "Love is the morning and the evening star." Elmer Gantry The first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!
		The Bible-thumping preacher Elmer Gantry was pioneering the use of the then-new medium of radio to get out the mixture of (selective) Biblical literalism and railing at immorality and modernity that defines the Christian Right then as now....
		Elmer Gantry, based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis, depicts some preachers as fund raisers who are in the entertainment field as much as they are in the business of winning souls.
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	Gantry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gantry crane is an alternate term for a Portainer crane
		The multistorey frame which encloses a rocket at its launch site, containing elevators and staircases that enable technicians to inspect, maintain, and adjust all parts of the vehicle, and for cabling and hoses to be attached to it and removed.
		Gantries in the West are painted red and white for aircraft safety; Soviet or Russian ones are painted military colors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gantry (196 words)

	Free Essays - Elmer Gantry
		Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry is a great book because it has credibility, a timeless theme, and it has the necessary action.
		Elmer is a pompous football player who thinks that he is higher than any religion.
		Elmer often gets into fights that will keep the reader in the edge of their seat.
	www.freeessays.tv /d1930.htm (659 words)

	Elmer Gantry Summary
		Elmer Gantry and his roommate, Jim Lefferts, have traveled from their college in Kansas to Cato, Missouri, to see their girlfriends.
		After dinner, the drunken Elmer picks a fight with a man who is heckling Eddie Fislinger, a fellow Terwillinger College student, as he preaches to an outdoor crowd.
		Jim tries to persuade Elmer not to go along with it, but when Elmer attends the Annual Prayer Week he cannot resist the...
	www.enotes.com /elmer-gantry/126952 (146 words)

	Elmer Gantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Burt Lancaster won an Oscar for his dynamic portrayal of the title character, a huckster of the first order who happens upon a revival meeting run by the ethereal Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), and quickly discovers that he can make more money selling Jesus than selling washing machines.
		The story follows Gantry's rise as a hell-and-damnation preacher, able to enflame a crowd (or an entire town), whose motives are increasingly opaque.
		Elmer Gantry is not an easy experience, probably because there are no heroes: everyone, including Sister Sharon, are portrayed as uniquely human.
	www.classicsondvd.com /elmer.htm (416 words)

	Elmer Gantry News
		Elmer Gantry News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		But when it comes to faith healing, I've always thought of "Elmer Gantry" and charlatans who take advantage of seriously ill people's desperate...
		At 71, Shirley Jones is getting nasty - just as she did in her Oscar-winning role as a hooker in 1960's Elmer Gantry.
	www.topix.net /movies/elmer-gantry?scoring=r (570 words)

	Magic In The Air - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
		Known originally as Five Proud Walkers, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera was formed in Conventry, England in 1967.
		1968 was not productive with vocalist David "Elmer" Gantry leaving the group due to the touring strains and to pursue a solo career.
		Followed by guitarist Forster the group recruited new members Paul Brett and Johnny Joyce and continued as the Velvet Opera and released another LP in 1969 on the CBS label called Ride A Hustler's Dream but only succeeded in alienating their fans.
	ukpsych.tripod.com /elmergantryvelvetopera.htm (418 words)

	Elmer Gantry
		It's easy to say that spirituality is a good thing, but all the crazy people in the world seem to justify varying degrees of corrupt activities in the name of religion - think of the recent terrorist attacks, for example.
		The movie Elmer Gantry is about people who, while not exactly evil people, take advantage of the gullible and the confused in the name of religious salvation.
		However, the vacuum cleaners aren't moving like they used to, and Elmer resorts to the life of a vagabond until he stumbles onto Sister Sharon's revival tent.
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	Elmer Gantry
		This movie is one of the finest performances by Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry.
		The opening lines of the Sinclair Lewis novel on which the movie is based are: "Elmer Gantry was drunk." He is a womanizing, hard drinking, manipulating scoundrel…but, underneath the brashness is a caring heart.
		It is interesting to compare this film with the more recent one starring Robert Duval entitled The Apostle.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/god/elmergantry.htm (400 words)

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	Comedy Central: Movies - Elmer Gantry - Review
		It pulls few punches in its story of the hypocrisy, materialism, and opportunism at the heart of the evangelical world of Bible-thumping barnstorming revival troupes, an industry that professes to be about spiritual salvation.
		In the title role, Burt Lancaster moves like a powerful steam engine through the rustic countryside: there's no stopping this man. Gantry is charismatic and enigmatically complex, even if Lancaster is occasionally too much a bull in a china shop to convey his character's subtler motivations.
		Some questionable character development in the film's latter stages is overcome by writer/director Richard Brooks's barbed and darkly satirical Oscar-winning script, which also keeps the film from getting bogged down in obvious moralizing, as we are encouraged to love, loathe, and forgive the characters.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/movie/10506/review.jhtml (261 words)

	Elmer Gantry Characters
		He fell in love with Sharon when he first met her, and is devoted to her.
		After Sharon dismisses him in favor of Elmer, Cecil tries to conduct a rescue mission in Buffalo.
		Bains initially forces Elmer to agree to marry Lulu, but later, after Elmer shows him Lulu kissing...
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	Elmer Gantry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burt Lancaster was not, however, the first actor to portray the character of Elmer Gantry.
		Broadway star, Edward J. Pawley, was the original Elmer Gantry having played that role in the 1928 Broadway production,
		Pawley left the Broadway stage in 1933 and went to Hollywood where he appeared in over 50 movies during a 10-year period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmer_Gantry (794 words)

	Elmer Gantry Quotes
		No one could deny his theories because none of his theories meant anything...
		"Elmer had enough money to take him to Eureka.
		All the way there he warmed up the affection with which a borrower recalls an old acquaintance who is generous and a bit soft." XVI-3, p.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /separry/sinclairlewis/elmergantry.html (530 words)

	Elmer Gantry Study Guide by Sinclair Lewis: Summary and Analysis
		Elmer Gantry Study Guide by Sinclair Lewis: Summary and Analysis
		Jim tries to persuade Elmer not to go along with it, but when Elmer attends the Annual Prayer Week he cannot resist the emotionalism of the service.
		Each BookRags Literature Study Guide is written by a subject expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the work.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-elmer-gantry/sum.html (199 words)

	Shirley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elmer piously heads up the raid on the house of prostitution where LuLu works.
		She is amused by the look of shock on Elmer's face when he sees her.
		After all, he is the person most responsible for the ruination and decline.
	www.shirleyjones.com /elmeBF.htm (1083 words)

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