![]() That, perhaps, is why those of us who would feel at home in a goldenoak church can hardly bear to admit that this superstructure is built on such emotions, as well as on the more presentable passion for service which also springs from self-distrust. Secretly Scary: 'Elmer Gantry' (1960) - Diabolique Magazine Secretly Scary is a celebration of movies that were not marketed as horror films, but read as horror films and are as harrowing, terrifying and unsettling as the most confronting horror movies. ![]() He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire-and-damnation revivalism has attracted quite a following. But he enters sympathetically into a barren, mediocre life, and shows how it is corrupted, yet sustained, by fear, ignorance, and cruelty. Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqu story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Lewis interested primarily in propaganda against conventional religion, he might have handled his weapons more skillfully by making Elmer Gantry a less complete blackguard. who was old and fearful of Frank Shallard, who had never freed himself from the pleasant childish emotions which centred in the church of Carol Kennicott, in Main Street of Babbitt. See what’s playing 7. This is the tragedy not only of Elmer Gantry, but also of Dr. Elmer Gantry (1960) MUBI Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. ![]() Was a member of the of the bogus Fleetwood Mac band, that the then manager Clifford Davis send on a US tour in 1974 when the real Fleetwood Mac rejected the tour. It is this inner conflict of the individual which delivers him over to the mob, rather than the outrages of the mob itself, which most deeply engages Mr. Named himself in honour of the character in the Burt Lancaster movie Elmer Gantry. Now decency and kindness and reason are the attributes of men who are free from the inner compulsion of fear and guilt, which nourish mob action of all kinds, from lynching to evangelism. Hard-living traveling salesman Elmer Gantry joins with tent-revival evangelist Sister Sharon Falconer to sell their boisterous vision of Christianity to the.
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