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Auction History Result 1d105 ELMER GANTRY Argentinean '60 Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones & Patti Page! Date Sold 5/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Argentinean Movie Poster (measures approximately 29" x 43" [74 x 109 cm]) (Learn More) Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, the 1960 Richard Brooks religious bogus-evangelist romantic melodrama ("You're all sinners... You'll all burn in hell!"; "Tell 'em Gantry... Save 'em from sin... lead 'em to salvation... tell 'em about everything-but not about your whiskey and your women!"; "The Screen Has Never Known A Man Like Elmer Gantry"; "Sinner! Elmer Gantry wants you! To save your soul! to see the light! are you ready, sinner? he wants you to know all about heaven... but not about his whiskey and his women!"; "Bless Him! Thousands of believers shouted his praises!"; "Damn Him! Three women damned his soul!"; "If there was a dollar to be made-Gantry would make it... If there was a soul to be saved-Gantry would save it..."; "For Adults Only. No Children Under 16 Admitted Unless Accompanied By An Adult"; "Based on the bold novel by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis"; "Nobel Prize Winner Sinclair Lewis' bold novel of passion and damnation now bursts full-life across the screen!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; note that Burt Lancaster did an excellent job portraying the lead of Sinclair Lewis' novel, but the events of the novel had to be drastically toned down for the screen, so that it would not appear that the movie was anti-organized religion, just anti-fake faith healers!) starring Burt Lancaster (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Elmer Gantry), Jean Simmons (as Sister Sharon Falconer), Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and Patti Page NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. There is a censor stamp at upper left. There are creases throughout the poster and there is some staining in the credits at left and in Lancaster's image at upper right. There is some writing on the back of the poster that very slightly bleeds through to the front at lower right. Learn More about condition grades 
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