One hopping good story of a fast talking appliance salesman from the Bible Belt who cons his way up the steps of success and transforms into a fiery preacher
October 23, 2005 (Press Release) --
Writer Screenwriter Gary Kencey Releases Review of Elmer Gantry (1960)
One hopping good story of a fast talking appliance salesman from the Bible Belt who cons his way up the steps of success and transforms into a fiery preacher
For More Info Contact:
by Gary Kencey
writer111@gmail.com
http://writer111.blogspot.com
http://ez-entertainment.net
Los Angeles, CA – Screenwriter Gary Kencey has just finished and released a comprehensive review of 3-Oscar winner ELMER GANTRY.
This review is available for immediate publication and syndication purposes.
The full text of the review is available from http://writer111.blogspot.com/
Here is an excerpt:
ELMER GANTRY (1960) is one hopping good story of a fast talking appliance salesman from the Bible Belt who, back in the days of the Prohibition and Speak-Easies, cons his way up the steps of success and transforms into a fiery preacher who can agitate the masses in every direction he wants. He builds up a considerable following in Zenith, Kansas as the eager sidekick of Sharon Falconer, an evangelist who has more truth in her soul than Elmer. Gantry milks the whole enterprise for whatever its worth until the tragic ending when the transformation of this super huckster emerges as the principle character arc of the whole plot.
Adapted from Sinclair Lewis's book by the same title, director Richard Brooks created a classic indictment of those revivalists who manipulate the masses for their own ends by using the Jesus's message of love as a shield and subterfuge. The movie was nominated for 5 Oscars in 1961 won 3 of them – Best Actor in a Leading Role for Burt Lancaster, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Shirley Jones and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Richard Brooks.
Elmer Gantry (played by considerable fire and brimstone by Burt Lancaster) starts his journey as a big time loser, a traveling appliance salesman in the 20s who is more successful at cracking up his drinking buddies with lewd jokes and seducing young women for one night stands than anything else. Always broke, always moving from one town to another, but endowed by the obvious gift of bombastic rhetoric, he finds his calling under the tent of the revivalist Sharon Falconer (played by the incredibly beautiful Jean Simmons).
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Gets an unqualified 10 out 10 from this movie nut.
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Gary Kencey ( http://writer111.blogspot.com) is a freelance text perpetrator who has finished his first feature script AFFORDING MIRACLES, a big-budget mystical-thriller story of murdered Catholic priests, Virgin Mary and human cloning. Having failed miserably to draw the necessary lessons from this masochistic ordeal, he is currently busy banging his head against a second script, the twisting story of an immigrant who is trying to find the "American dream" in America. He can be reached at writer111@gmail.com
He writes regularly for the entertainment web site http://ez-entertainment.net
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One hopping good story of a fast talking appliance salesman from the Bible Belt who cons his way up the steps of success and transforms into a fiery preacher
For More Info Contact:
by Gary Kencey
writer111@gmail.com
http://writer111.blogspot.com
http://ez-entertainment.net
Los Angeles, CA – Screenwriter Gary Kencey has just finished and released a comprehensive review of 3-Oscar winner ELMER GANTRY.
This review is available for immediate publication and syndication purposes.
The full text of the review is available from http://writer111.blogspot.com/
Here is an excerpt:
ELMER GANTRY (1960) is one hopping good story of a fast talking appliance salesman from the Bible Belt who, back in the days of the Prohibition and Speak-Easies, cons his way up the steps of success and transforms into a fiery preacher who can agitate the masses in every direction he wants. He builds up a considerable following in Zenith, Kansas as the eager sidekick of Sharon Falconer, an evangelist who has more truth in her soul than Elmer. Gantry milks the whole enterprise for whatever its worth until the tragic ending when the transformation of this super huckster emerges as the principle character arc of the whole plot.
Adapted from Sinclair Lewis's book by the same title, director Richard Brooks created a classic indictment of those revivalists who manipulate the masses for their own ends by using the Jesus's message of love as a shield and subterfuge. The movie was nominated for 5 Oscars in 1961 won 3 of them – Best Actor in a Leading Role for Burt Lancaster, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Shirley Jones and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Richard Brooks.
Elmer Gantry (played by considerable fire and brimstone by Burt Lancaster) starts his journey as a big time loser, a traveling appliance salesman in the 20s who is more successful at cracking up his drinking buddies with lewd jokes and seducing young women for one night stands than anything else. Always broke, always moving from one town to another, but endowed by the obvious gift of bombastic rhetoric, he finds his calling under the tent of the revivalist Sharon Falconer (played by the incredibly beautiful Jean Simmons).
.........
Gets an unqualified 10 out 10 from this movie nut.
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Gary Kencey ( http://writer111.blogspot.com) is a freelance text perpetrator who has finished his first feature script AFFORDING MIRACLES, a big-budget mystical-thriller story of murdered Catholic priests, Virgin Mary and human cloning. Having failed miserably to draw the necessary lessons from this masochistic ordeal, he is currently busy banging his head against a second script, the twisting story of an immigrant who is trying to find the "American dream" in America. He can be reached at writer111@gmail.com
He writes regularly for the entertainment web site http://ez-entertainment.net
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