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One of the GREATEST movies ever made based on one the GREATEST books ever written. Please look beyond the Christianity professed in this movie. Please watch this extraordinary movie until the end. Please set your religion, or lack thereof, aside and consider the message being sent. This 1950s USA movie provides us with an extraordinay platform to review and confirm the humanity and each of our religions or/and belief systems. I believe this movie (and the book it is based upon) to be an opportunity to re-confirm each of our faiths in the light of our humanity. Richard Brooks is a genius filmmaker with undeservedly low recognition for his amazing career and awesome canon. Elmer Gantry, in my opinion, is the pinnacle of the masterworks of director Richard Brooks, and actor Burt Lancaster, and author of the book this film is based upon of the same name, written by Sinclair Lewis. This film is not only a classic of American cinema, it also opens, quite wide, the American sentiment and the fundamental foundation of a country that can never be understood without reflection on its most sacred and myriad beliefs. Please watch this movie not only for its thought provoking entertainment value, but also as a vision of an era of USA history that gave birth to our world today.