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Yes, like two cops
working over a criminal.
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Gantry scares him with the electric chair,
you save him if he confesses.
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The point is, our sinner does confess,
and he is saved.
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- But it was ridiculous.
- Does the method really matter?
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Who is this, uh, this Elmer Gantry?
And what do you really know about him?
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His background, his reputation?
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What does he want?
Money? My job? You? What?
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- Bill...
- In 1917, Mr Gantry
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was expelled from
a theological seminary in Kansas
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for seducing
the deacon's daughter in the church
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where he had that day
delivered a Christmas sermon.
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And there's more. Do you wanna hear it?
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Ta-da!
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Ladies and gentlemen,
you see before you a magic carpet.
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A heavenly summons.
A ticket to the big time. Listen to this.
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"Would you consider meeting with
the church committee and myself
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about bringing your revival to our fair city
of Zenith, capital of America's Midwest?"
:47:06
"Kindly telegraph reply immediately.
Signed, George F Babbitt, Secretary,
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Zenith Chamber of Commerce,
Chairman of the Church Board."
:47:14
Zenith.
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- We're not ready for Zenith.
- Mr Babbitt thinks we are.
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I know we are. Next stop, Zenith.
Then Chicago, New York, London.
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Straight to the top
on the Sharon Falconer Express!
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- In a tent? They'll laugh at us.
- Not at Shara.
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It's pitchman's talk. What do you know
about the background of our work?
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The nature of revivalism is rural.
It grew out of frontier life.
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- Big-city people are more cynical...
- They're more sinful, too.
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And more lonely
and more unhappy. And...
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And, Shara, they need you more.
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- I'm against this.
- Bill boy, you're an old sourpuss.
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- This is a passport to the Promised Land.
- Gantry, I am not your boy.
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You deluded her, but to me,
everything about you's offensive.
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You're a crude, vulgar show-off, and
your vocabulary belongs in an outhouse.