Elmer Gantry

About the show

Football captain Elmer Gantry feigns conversion to gain a seminary scholarship and becomes an evangelist, first partnering with Sharon Falconer. His former lover Lulu and her husband Eddie expose his affairs at the opening of Sharon’s tabernacle, which catches fire; Sharon and her followers die, while Elmer escapes and later becomes a New Thought promoter haunted by the disaster.