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As racy and controversial as they come, the 1960 production of Richard Brooks' Elmer Gantry drew criticism from morality groups and praise from just about everyone else. Accompanied in some city newspaper advertisements with an "adults only" label, Elmer Gantry drew very respectable critical notices and was a winner at the 1960 Academy Awards®. Based on the 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis ...
4.01. 5,915 ratings600 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 ...
Elmer Gantry le charlatan (Elmer Gantry) est un film américain réalisé par Richard Brooks, sorti en 1960. Synopsis. Le film a pour toile de fond le mouvement revivaliste américain, très actif aux États-Unis dans l'entre-deux-guerres, dans un contexte de prohibition. Elmer Gantry est un ...
Elmer Gantry, American film drama, released in 1960, that was an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s novel of the same name and featured Academy Award-winning performances by Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones.. Lancaster portrayed the title character, a charlatan evangelist who joins a ministry headed by Sister Sharon Falconer (played by Jean Simmons). He mesmerizes his flock even as he fleeces ...
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 ...
Elmer Gantry, novel by Sinclair Lewis, a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character of Elmer Gantry starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a
Elmer Gantry ist ein sozialkritischer Entwicklungsroman des Literaturnobelpreisträgers Sinclair Lewis aus dem Jahr 1927.. Inhalt. Der satirische Roman schildert den Aufstieg Elmer Gantrys bis in die Spitze des religiösen Managements der protestantischen Denominationen in den USA. Die Requisiten des Erfolgs sind rhetorische Begabung und eine mit Sentimentalität und Bauernschläue gepaarte ...
