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Featuring Burt Lancaster in a compelling Oscar®-winning* performance, Elmer Gantry is unforgettable screen entertainment "surging with power and excitement" (Variety)! Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers that he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, Gantry converts to evangelism. Joining forces with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an oldflame (Shirley Jones) re-appears, Gantry is forced to confront demons of a more worldly orderlong-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a veritable Hell on Earth! *1960: Actor
