Elmer Gantry

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Richard Brooks' award winning Elmer Gantry comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.66:1. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible, and the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include the original theatrical trailer. Considering the age of the film, this is a decent release from MGM/UA. There is room for improvement, ...
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Overview

Richard Brooks' award winning Elmer Gantry comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.66:1. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible, and the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include the original theatrical trailer. Considering the age of the film, this is a decent release from MGM/UA. There is room for improvement, however.
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Special Features

Original theatrical trailer; English: mono; French: mono; Spanish: mono; French and Spanish subtitles
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Editorial Reviews

All Movie Guide - Dan Jardine
This once scandalous adaptation of the trenchant Sinclair Lewis novel may now seem a little dated, but it still has much to recommend it. 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. Still, there's no denying his magnetism, which helped Lancaster earn his first and only Academy Award. Jean Simmons offers a more quietly sophisticated portrayal as Sister Sharon Falconer, but it is Shirley Jones, in the flashier role of Gantry's ex-flame and prostitute Lulu, who garnered the Best Supporting Actress nod from the Academy. 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. Brooks' sharp editing and quick pacing are also an important asset in this dialogue-driven 2 1/2-hour film.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/6/2001
  • UPC: 027616858924
  • Original Release: 1960

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  • Source: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
  • Region Code: 1
  • Aspect Ratio: Vistavision (1.66:1)
  • Presentation: Wide Screen / Mono
  • Sound: monaural
  • Language: English, Français, Español
  • Time: 2:27:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Burt Lancaster Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons Sister Sharon Falconer
Dean Jagger William L. Morgan
Arthur Kennedy Jim Lefferts
Shirley Jones Lulu Bains
Edward Andrews George Babbitt
Patti Page Sister Rachel
John McIntire Rev. Pengilly
Joe Maross Pete
Everett Glass Rev. Brown
Michael Whalen Rev. Phillips
Hugh Marlowe Rev. Garrison
Philip Ober Rev. Planck
Wendell Holmes Rev. Ulrick
Rex Ingram Preacher
Sally Fraser Prostitute
Barry Kelley Capt. Holt
Dayton Lummis
Milton Parsons Revivalist
John Qualen Storekeeper Sam
Max Showalter Deaf Man
Jean Willes Prostitute
Technical Credits
Richard Brooks Director, Screenwriter
John Alton Cinematographer
William F. Calvert Set Decoration/Design
Edward Carrere Art Director
Marjorie Fowler Editor
Dorothy Jeakins Costumes/Costume Designer
Gilbert Kurland Production Manager
Harry Maret Makeup
Harry D. Mills Sound/Sound Designer
André Previn Score Composer
Robert J. Schiffer Makeup
Bernard Smith Producer
Frank A. Tuttle Set Decoration/Design
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Scene Index

Scene Selections
0. Scene Selections
1. Warning/Title [2:32]
2. Fast Talker [12:27]
3. Sharon's Big Tent [10:58]
4. Charm A Charmer [6:54]
5. Chapter 5 [12:09]
6. Chapter 6 [6:20]
7. Chapter 7 [5:59]
8. Chapter 8 [:32]
9. Chapter 9 [15:13]
10. Chapter 10 [7:04]
11. Chapter 11 [7:54]
12. Chapter 12 [5:33]
13. Chapter 13 [7:07]
14. Chapter 14 [11:06]
15. Chapter 15 [3:47]
16. Chapter 16 [7:11]
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    good thief

    You can be sure, Elmer Gantry is technically a sinner. He lies, drunks and perverts women, as any bad man, but I think what makes him a sinner is he has chosen a particular activity for deceiving people: religion, this is any class of religion more or less related with Christianity, because these little details doesn¿t worry to Gantry. However, a detail saves him: he defrauds people, but these people wants to be defrauded. He also gives false hopes and illusions, but at last, although false, these are hope and illusions and there¿s no much of that in life. Summing up, Elmer Gantry, who has true fire in his tongue, in some sense doesn¿t deceive anyone who doesn¿t want to be deceived and never without defrauding himself, because Gantry is a liar, but he loves people he lies, and for that I think there¿s a place for him in Heaven. Perhaps only a dark place, but I can¿t condemn Elmer Gantry, simply let God judge him.

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