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Elmer Gantry (en España, El fuego y la palabra; en Chile, Ni bendito ni maldito) es una película estadounidense de 1960 dirigida por Richard Brooks y con Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones y Patti Page en los papeles principales. Está basada en la novela homónima de Sinclair Lewis, escrita en 1926 y ...
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a ...
5,918 ratings599 reviews. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be "invited" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church--a saver ...
Handlung. Elmer Gantry ist eine durchtriebene Gestalt, die sich in der Prohibitionszeit in Gaststätten mit Alkoholausschank herumtreibt, ein abgebrochenes Theologiestudium hinter sich hat und jeder Frau hinterherläuft. Auf einer Tour als Handelsvertreter findet Gantry heraus, dass man als Vertreter Gottes in einer Zeltmission viel bessere Umsätze machen kann.
Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis. Penguin, Dec 4, 2007 - Fiction - 496 pages. Sinclair Lewis’ world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring ʼ20s. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be “invited” to a ...
El fuego y la palabra es una película dirigida por Richard Brooks con Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, Arthur Kennedy .... Año: 1960. Título original: Elmer Gantry. Sinopsis: Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) es un hombre atractivo, oportunista y absolutamente inmoral. Tras asistir, por casualidad, a una reunión religiosa, se da cuenta de lo fácil que es ganar dinero como ...
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire-and-damnation revivalism has attracted quite a following. Gantry uses his own quick wit and Bible knowledge ...
