Favorite Burt Lancaster movie?

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The one I can watch over again! Shows off his athleticism in a lighthearted movie! My dad actually told me about the movie and he’s been dead for 50 years but was a huge BL fan.
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All good ones. Another favorite of mine was "The Rainmaker" with Katharine Hepburn and other wonderful actors.
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I vote also for Sweet Smell of Success and Seven Days in May in both he showed how menacing a character he could play and in Seven Days in May he had a great name for a general, James Mattoon Scott, and 2 of my all time film noir movies Criss Cross and the Killers ,I know to many but I had to put these in

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Ah, yes, Elmer Gantry, that silver-tongued, self-indulgent, ruthless liar who conned all those followers.

Lancaster won the Oscar for that one in 1961.

But when Sinclair Lewis published the book in 1927, it was banned.

The book has been called “the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.”

(I have not read Voltaire, but I read Elmer Gantry decades ago and just ordered it to read again — here in the 21st Century, with hypocrisy and conning still thriving — more than ever, in more ways, and with even more at stake.)

Anyway, thanks, Tal, I just checked and saw that the movie is streaming.

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Ah, yes, Elmer Gantry, that silver-tongued, self-indulgent, ruthless liar who conned all those followers.

Lancaster won the Oscar for that one in 1961.

But when Sinclair Lewis published the book in 1927, it was banned.

The book has been called “the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.”

(I have not read Voltaire, but I read Elmer Gantry decades ago and just ordered it to read again — here in the 21st Century, with hypocrisy and conning still thriving — more than ever, in more ways, and with even more at stake.)

Anyway, thanks, Tal, I just checked and saw that the movie is streaming.

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Field of Dreams is one of my favorite sports movies even though Burt was past his prime. Another movie I saw with him for the first time 4 years ago was The Swimmer. A very underrated and introspective film.
We watched Field of Dreams recently and it took us forever to come up with his name, his voice we knew, but could not put a name to it. Finally it clicked.
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