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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a conman of religion is in many ways better on the screen than it was as a book. Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy are surrounded by the rich, authentic flavor of tent-show evangelism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Aug. 1, 1960 | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...worked in the great tradition of Edith Wharton, Henry James and Sinclair Lewis. But where James did mannered, brilliant black-paper silhouettes of a special world and Lewis slashed unforgettable caricatures of the world at large on slightly beer-stained sketch pads, Marquand carefully painted portraits-so smooth that one never noticed the artist at work-and conceived a world narrow enough for him to master and wide enough for the reader to enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: J. P. MARQUAND | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a con man of religion, which is rich in the gaudy flavor of tent-show evangelism. Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy all have the time of their lives hitting the sawdust trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Elmer Gantry (United Artists) arrived accompanied by cannonades of publicity indicating that this version of Sinclair Lewis' 1927 novel about tent-show Bible belt religion is under concentrated attack from any number of men of the cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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