Elmer Gantry

Store keeper Sam asks traveling salesman Elmer Gantry, “Say, how about the missionary, and the cannibals and the chorus girl, hmm?” (0:16)

Her manager Bill Morgan tells the revivalist, “Sharon, our advance man in Lincoln, Nebraska got drunk, and he’s disappeared.” (0:27)

Sister Sharon asks police Capt. Holt, “Do you enforce prohibition?” (0:33)

Elmer preaches, “I don’t know the first thing about... psychology... or any other -ology...” (0:38)

A janitor tells Elmer, “I’ve been converted five time: Billy Sunday... and twice by Sister Falconer. I get terrible drunk... Gettin’ drunk and gettin’ saved.” (0:40)

Elmer tells Sharon, “You’ve got me plumb hypnotized.”
Sharon: ”... I can hypnotize, because God chose me to do his work.” (0:42)

Reporter Jim asks Sharon, “Nervous about opening tomorrow night?” (1:00)

Protest sign: “REPEAL PROHIBITION” (1:10)

Jim dictates a news story: “There is not one law in any state of the union protecting the public from the hysterical onslaught of revivalists...” (1:15)

Morgan tells Rev. Planck, “There’s always a lunatic fringe...” (1:19)

Sharon tells Elmer, “I was crazy.”
Elmer: “You got me half crazy.”
”Just ecstasy...” (1:28)

Elmer tells the radio audience, “... we all know that Brutus was an anarchistic, alcoholic assassin.”
”Your streets are made unsafe by... insidious opium-smokers.” (1:33)

Elmer: “It’s been eight days since I gave you the addresses of... two cocaine peddlers, and 16 brothels...” (1:37)

Jim tells Elmer: ‘There is: prohibition.” (2:07)