Movie |
Based On Novel Or Book | Con Man
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1961 | Shirley
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1961 | Richard
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1961 | Burt
Best Actor Drama | 1961 | Burt
Top Drama | 1961
Top Female Supporting Performance | 1961 | Shirley
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1961 | Burt
Best Written American Drama | 1961 | Richard
Best Actor | 1960 | Burt
Best Motion Picture Drama | 1961
Best Director | 1961 | Richard
Best Actress Drama | 1961 | Jean
Best Supporting Actress | 1961 | Shirley
Best Foreign Actress | 1961 | Jean
Best Film from any Source | 1961 | Richard
Best Foreign Actor | 1961 | Burt
Female Dramatic Performance | 1961 | Jean
Best Film | 1968 | Richard
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1961 | Richard
Best Film | 1961 | Richard
Best Film | 1960
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 10,400,000 USD
When he first learned that Richard Brooks was interested in adapting his novel, Sinclair Lewis told him that he should change it significantly, advising him to read all the criticisms of the book and use them as a way to improve on it.
Pat Hingle landed the title role, but before filming began, he became caught in a stalled elevator in his apartment building. He lost his balance while trying to crawl out and fell 54 feet down the shaft. He sustained massive injuries, including a fractured skull, wrist, hip and leg, and several broken ribs. He also lost his little finger on his left hand. Hingle spent much of the next year relearning how to walk and was forced to give up the part in order to recover from his horrific injuries.
After this film was released, Burt Lancaster got a letter from a boyhood friend he had not heard from in years. The friend wrote him that Lancaster's part in this film was the closest to the way Lancaster acted in real life when they were kids.
In a hate-filled sermon, Gantry denounces a number of "heresies" including "Russellism". This is a reference to Charles Taze Russell, first president of the (current) Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the legal organization used by Jehovah's Witnesses.
Burt Lancaster intended the film as an attack on Billy Graham.
"Lulu Bains: Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!"
"Clean-up man: Mister, I've been converted five times. Billy Sunday, Reverend Biederwolf, Gypsy Smith, and twice by Sister Falconer. I get terrible drunk, and then I get good and saved. Both of them done me a powerful lot of good - gettin' drunk and gettin' saved. Well, good night."
