Il figlio di Giuda
Elmer Gantry è un piazzista che si unisce alla missione dei "revivalisti" perché innamorato dell'apostola del movimento, sorella Sharon. I problemi sorgono nel momento in cui una ragazza, amata e abbandonata dall'uomo alcuni anni prima, ricatta Gentry con alcune foto compromettenti. Lo scandalo finisce per coinvolgere la stessa missione.
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Cast principale
Burt Lancaster
Elmer Gantry
Jean Simmons
Sister Sharon Falconer
Arthur Kennedy
Jim Lefferts
Dean Jagger
William L. Morgan
Shirley Jones
Lulu Bains
Patti Page
Sister Rachel
Edward Andrews
George F. Babbitt
John McIntire
Rev. John Pengilly
Hugh Marlowe
Rev. Philip Garrison
Joe Maross
Pete
Philip Ober
Reverend Planck
Barry Kelley
Police Captain Holt
Simili
L'apostolo
The Case for Christ
Prova a prendermi
7 giorni a Entebbe
90 minuti in Paradiso
Do You Believe?
The Good Lie
La morte corre sul fiume
Recensioni degli utenti
Vedi tutto su TMDBBurt Lancaster is on great form here as the eponymous quick-talking and charismatic hoover salesman who alights upon the successful industry that is "Sister Sharon" (Jean Simmons). She preaches the word of God with a piousness that he finds compelling. Not because he shares her zeal, but because he can see the impact it has on the rather sheepish population who turn up at her prayer meetings in th…
**_The story of traveling tent revivalists in 1920’s America_** A fast-talking salesman from Missouri (Burt Lancaster) is attracted to the troupe of a winsome evangelist (Jean Simmons). Once he proves his abilities as a charismatic preacher, he joins the "road church" show, but a woman from his past threatens to shake things up (Shirley Jones). Arthur Kennedy plays a reporter who travels with t…