First, an embarrassing admission: I have always thought Elmer Gantry was Silas Marner. I guess my mind filed them both under Novels with Old-Fashioned Men's Names for Titles. Whenever I heard either title, I thought of George Eliot's 19th-century novel. So I was surprised when the opening credits to Elmer Gantry said it was based on the novel by Sinclai…
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