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...Among many made-in-California imitations and rivals of the Townsend Plan, two achieved notable power and the support of millions of voters: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California) and the Ham-and-Eggs movement, both Utopian schemes to aid the poor and aged. Running as the Democratic nominee for Governor on an E.P.I.C. platform in 1934, Sinclair got 879,000 votes to Republican Frank Merriam's 1,138,000. Ham-and-Eggs, cooked up by a radio announcer and two admen, attracted wide public support (and several notorious scoundrels), forced a special referendum...
Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster turns in one of the best performances of his career as Sinclair Lewis' Bible-banging, skirt-chasing evangelist...
Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster brings Sinclair Lewis' 1927 hero to exuberant lite in Hollywood's gaudy, graphic look at tent-show religion...
Elmer Gantry. In one of his best performances, Burt Lancaster puts the old Sinclair Lewis tent show on the road in a flavorful resurrection of the 1927 novel...
Elmer Gantry. Director Richard Brooks's wonderfully gaudy, artfully graphic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a carny-style revivalist specializing in the Seventh Commandment...