Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
Elmer Gantry:
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.
Burt Lancaster
(as Elmer Gantry)
Elmer Gantry:
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
(as Elmer Gantry)
Edward Andrews
(as George F. Babbitt)
George Babbitt:
Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise... and for whatever the hell the other freedoms are!
Arthur Kennedy
(as Jim Lefferts)
Jim Lefferts:
You look like a man who could use a drink.
Elmer Gantry: You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry: That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: Amen.
Elmer Gantry: You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry: That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: Amen.
Jean Simmons
(as Sister Sharon Falconer)
Shirley Jones
(as Lulu Bains)
Lulu Bains:
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!