Elmer Gantry (film) Quotes

Elmer Gantry (film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Elmer Gantry stopped airing in 1970.

It features Bernard Smith as producer, André Previn in charge of musical score, and John Alton as head of cinematography.

Elmer Gantry (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Elmer Gantry (film) is 146 minutes long. Elmer Gantry (film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry, Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains, Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer, Edward Andrews as George Babbitt, and Arthur Kennedy as Jim Lefferts.

Elmer Gantry (film) Quotes

Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry

• (Burt Lancaster) "Love is the morning and the evening star."

• (Burt Lancaster) "Sin, sin, sin. You're all sinners. You're all doomed to perdition."

• (Burt Lancaster) "I was accosted by three painted women. Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pick-pockets, and insidious opium-smokers."

• (Burt Lancaster) "I have here in my pocket; and thank heaven you can't see them; lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard -- a foreigner."

Shirley Jones as Lulu Bains

• (Shirley Jones) "Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent. Repent." and I got to moanin' "Save me. Save me." and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps."

Edward Andrews as George Babbitt

• (Edward Andrews) "Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise -- and for whatever the hell the other freedoms are."

Arthur Kennedy as Jim Lefferts

• (Arthur Kennedy) "You look like a man who could use a drink."
• (Burt Lancaster) "You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'."
• (Arthur Kennedy) "There is. Prohibition."
• (Burt Lancaster) "That's against sellin', not drinkin'."
• (Arthur Kennedy) "Amen."

Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer

• (Jean Simmons) "But tonight is a thousand years away."

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