U.S. distributors Kino Lorber have confirmed that they will release on Blu-ray director Richard Brooks' drama
Elmer Gantry (1960), starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, and Dean Jagger. The release is scheduled to arrive on the U.S. market in September.
In 1961,
Elmer Gantry won three Oscar Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role
(Burt Lancaster), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Shirley Jones), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks).
Synopsis: Handsome, opportunistic, immoral. Traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) is all this and more. So when he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers that he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, Gantry converts to evangelism. Joining forces with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) re-appears, Gantry is forced to confront demons of a more worldly order - long-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a veritable Hell on Earth!