Elmer Gantry-Welcome to the House of God!

[JubalCalif]

What a wonderful cameo role for the gifted late great black character actor Rex Ingram! THANKS for uploading this powerful clip from an excellent film!

[01thrilla]

Burt Lancaster is one hell of an actor and this film really does show just that!

A MIUST SEE FILM, highly recommend it!

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@01thrilla

I can't imagine anyone but Lancaster pulling this role off.

[JubalCalif]

@Blahblobify

Not even Doodles Weaver ???

[rltuthill]

Netflix is really good for finding old classic movies and obscure indie films and documentaries.

[deriter64]

This beautiful movie was once available in full on YouTube but has been removed for copyrite reasons, as if Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones or Sinclair Lewis would realize anything from this "protection". In an age of CGI Elmer Gantry will never be re-released but the net is one place where young people can find powerful perfromances based on one of America's greatest authors. Imagine what it costs studios just to monitior and enforce this censorship. Madness!

[onlyweknow2]

I've never seen a bad Burt Lancaster movie.

[kassidy31]

@onlyweknow2 

[flaminia5]

the best of the film is when Lancaster sings!

yet i would suggest another ending: that he gets enough of sister Falconer as she has become an usual woman, and then he leaves, just so with one suit case, while she is standing and looking at him leaving; it should be rather a satire, not a melodrama

[cutis1000]

Religion is for children. Elmer Gantry had it right.

[a93191]

you will never find an actor like Bert Lancaster......look at his passion

[barrymore]

Great intergration moment...for film of that era.

[TheFlanker35]

@barrymore,

I think that's based on actual events. It wasn't uncommon for white evangelists to go into black churches during the Third Great Awakening. The first calls for racial integration in rural America usually came from open revival meetings. Also, it was usually acceptable for a white man to go into a black church but not the other way around. It also depended on where you lived.

Even the bigoted Westboro Baptist Church founder was a Civil Rights attorney.

[neweast1]

i stand by my statement,young actors todays with some exceptions are nothing but tabloid loving hacks.

[wrathchild2k]

great movie, great actor, Burt's performances were always stirring and passionate.

[MillaHead]

RIP Jean Simmons.

She died a few weeks ago.

[KENZOWAL]

Yes, RIP.

Jean Simmons is the most underrated actress of the twentieth century. She was awesome.

[progressiverebel]

Great scene, from a beyond brilliant movie. Burts character based on the immortal Bill Sunday, Slide Into Heaven for God and Aimee Semple Mcpherson. Just great

[Bestmanme08]

Jean Simmons in great new bio (Charlton Heston: An Incredible Life: Revised Edition)at amazon!

[gmihut]

Great movie

[Gilgamesh149]

Jean Simmons was cute as hell before she was in KISS.

[steventhestudent]

very good

[neweast1]

burt was the best on and of the screen,look what actors we have today more concerned with people magazines then performing

[TheThing88]

@neweast1 Daniel Day Lewis, Alfred Molina, Josh Brolin, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Carey Mulligan, Katie Jarvis, John Simm, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Casey Affleck, Gael Garcia Bernal, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall, Sam Rockwell and a whole host of others would like to strongly disagree with you there, Mr Sweeping Statement Man.

Besides, it's not as if Raquel Welch or Anita Ekberg didn't prioritise their image over their acting either...

[yamsid]

@TheThing88 I have to agree with you. I'm old and love old actors back to Ronald Coleman, Errol Flynn and Vivien Leigh but I watch modern movies and am usually really impressed. Johnny Depp is terrific and Kate Beckinsale and Keira Knightly break my old heart as much as any silver screen goddess of yesteryear. (Glad you included Maggie Gyllenhaal, she's super.) Looking only to the past for talent brings us back to Sunset Boulevard although I bet Gloria Swanson would agree, somewhat, with you.

[GEVMM]

This scene is awesome. Burt really deserved his Oscar.

[KENZOWAL]

Right on!  This is an outstanding, brilliant, Best Actor Oscar performance. The Academy sometimes misses the mark if there's anything controversial about a movie or a performance.

[UbiDuboi]

the video is out of sinc, but he actually does sing this hymn. Burt Lancaster is the consummate actor.

[outinsider]

con man looking to for new territory to con...or your typical evangelistic tent revivalist/ televangelist.

[circulus]

lol 4:22

[37549653]

I love you!

hi 2 u all 60

[Hemaworstje]

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