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Elmer Gantry
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A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy sharp social satire about charismatic frauds, public morality, and the uneasy business of selling belief.
- Tone
- satirical, darkly comic, tense
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- religious hypocrisy, ambition, deception, commercialism, desire
- Setting
- 1920s, roadside revival tents and small-town America