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Elmer Gantry. Director Richard Brooks's wonderfully gaudy, artfully graphic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a carny-style revivalist specializing in the Seventh Commandment...
Elmer Gantry. Director Richard Brooks's wonderfully gaudy, artfully graphic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a carny-style revivalist specializing in the Seventh Commandment...
...dark and tragic slum, a thriving, neon-trimmed Main Street, a sparkling and earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam...
Russell Juarez Birdwell, a slimmed-down, mustachioed version of the late Bob Benchley, has a secretary in constant attendance to record his every word, suggests that his glibness is an inheritance from his father, a Texas revivalist preacher. From his mother, says the Bird, he got an appetite for cash. "She always insisted that we work and save. When I was small, I made money by trapping and skinning skunks.'' Young Birdwell soon learned that there are as many ways to make pocket money as there are to skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas...
...result, the Lapps drowned their sorrows in barrels of aquavit. Then into the Laplanders' midst came Lars Levi Laestadius, famed botanist and Lutheran minister, with a message of hellfire and brimstone of such urgency that it sobered up Laplanders by the hundreds, set off a revivalist movement that is still a major force for morality and sobriety...