Elmer Gantry (1960)
Burt Lancaster: Elmer Gantry
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Quotes
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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.
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Elmer Gantry : [repeated] Love is the morning and the evening star.
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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.
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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.
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Elmer Gantry : Sin, sin, sin! You're all sinners! You're all doomed to perdition!
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Elmer Gantry : I did run out on you back there in Kansas, didn't I?
Lulu Bains : It's nobody's fault. Except maybe my old man's.
Elmer Gantry : Ever hear from him?
Lulu Bains : Once, last Christmas. The letter said "Daughter, read 1st Kings, Chapter 21 Verse 23." I looked it up. It said "And the dogs in the street shall eat Jezebel." My old man and his Bible.
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Elmer Gantry : Praying's the cheapest first-rate medicine I know.
