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Originally Posted by issybird
Elmer Gantry is amazingly relevant today, both in regard to religion and to the cult of personality. It's an extremely powerful and entertaining book, and the film is pretty terrific, too. And the price is right. 
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It is a book I planned on reading this year anyway--I've been trying to read one or two classics a month. I have only the vaguest recollection of the book and the movie; I keep checking the TCM listings for the film, but so far it's not scheduled.