Gantry

To what extent a pulpiteer like Elmer Gantry is common over there, we cannot here have the slightest idea.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 - Presentation Speech 1930

We have to make sure there is a memory here in California, said Jones, who won an Academy Award in 1961 for her role in the film Elmer Gantry.

'Ground Zero of the West Coast' rededicates park 2011

The movie transforms a dim idea—"Elmer Gantry" lite—into comedy that's dead in the water and as dull as it is broad.

Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale Joe Morgenstern 2011

When I think of the prosperity Gospel, what comes to mind is Sinclair Lewis's drunken, brawling, conniving, preacher Elmer Gantry junketing around the country spurring ticket-paying congregants to proclaim, "I am God's child, God created all things including wealth, and I will to inherit it" -- a caricature of prosperity teaching that is widespread amongst the theological community, media commentators, and non-governmental organizations.

Grant Brooke, M.Div.: The Case for the Prosperity Gospel M.Div. Grant Brooke 2010

An explosive martinet on the set, but the result was 'Elmer Gantry,' 'In Cold Blood' and 'The Professionals.'

Hard-Nosed Hollywood Scott Eyman 2011

We have to make sure there is a memory here in California, said Jones, who won an Academy Award in 1961 for her role in the film Elmer Gantry.

'Ground Zero of the West Coast' rededicates park 2011

The VGM fits on Weaver or Picatinny bases, takes rings for same, and lets you use whatever scope you like, because the Gantry Mount tilts upward at the rear, giving you your compensation for distance, and locks in place with a hardened steel pin.

Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

Right up there with "Elmer Gantry" is "The Professionals," a superb, late-in-the-day western set during the Mexican Revolution—not the equal of Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" but not far behind.

Hard-Nosed Hollywood Scott Eyman 2011

Like a road-company Elmer Gantry, the mayor presides over weekly ceremonies that give Dirt's citizens their measly rations of water "Acolytes, prepare the Holy Spigot."

Lizard Tale 'Rango': Clever, Coldblooded Joe Morgenstern 2011

But a lot of his earnest films remain worth watching—for instance, "Elmer Gantry" 1960, if only because of Burt Lancaster's come-to-Jesus performance, and "In Cold Blood" has retained its gloomy power as well.

Hard-Nosed Hollywood Scott Eyman 2011