Elmer Gantry
Staubsaugervertreter Elmer Gantry ist in seinem Beruf ein Versager. Groß ist er nur im Vertilgen von Alkohol und Besuchen von Bordellen. Dort entdeckt er auch sein rhetorisches Talent: Gantry riskiert gern mal eine dicke Lippe und beschließt, daraus Kapital zu schlagen. So beginnt er als Wanderprediger in der Zeltmission von Sharon Falconer und zieht dort bald die Massen in seinen Bann. Gantry wird ein Star der Szene - bis ihn seine Vergangenheit einholt.
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Cast
Mike Lally
Radio Station Official (uncredited)
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Hugh Marlowe
Rev. Philip Garrison
Colin Kenny
Extra at Revival Meeting
Larry J. Blake
Mac - Bartender (uncredited)
Max Showalter
Deaf Man (uncredited)
Claudia Bryar
Religious woman collecting money in opening scene (uncredited)
Patti Page
Sister Rachel
Philip Ober
Reverend Planck
Sally Fraser
Prostitute
Everett Glass
Rev. Brown (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Harry Antrim
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Milton Parsons
Revivalist (uncredited)
Edward Andrews
George F. Babbitt
John McIntire
Rev. John Pengilly
Peter Brocco
Benny - Photographer (uncredited)
Sol Gorss
Hobo in Boxcar (uncredited)
Jean Willes
Prostitute (uncredited)
Ken Terrell
Blind Man (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Janitor in Revival Tent (uncredited)
Dean Jagger
William L. Morgan
Shirley Jones
Lulu Bains
George Cisar
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Michael Whalen
Rev. Phillips (uncredited)
Arthur Kennedy
Jim Lefferts
Jean Simmons
Sister Sharon Falconer
John Qualen
Sam - Storekeeper
Norman Leavitt
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Charles Morton
Man Destroying Revival Tent (uncredited)
Ray Walker
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
Joe Maross
Pete
Wendell Holmes
Reverend Ulrich
William H. O'Brien
Train Conductor
Dan Riss
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
BarBara Luna
Prostitute (uncredited)
Barry Kelley
Police Captain Holt
Dayton Lummis
Eddington
Rex Ingram
Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
Ralph Dumke
Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)