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View Elmer Gantry testifying in the tent meeting scene in a film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel of the same name
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Sinclair Lewis.
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Sinclair Lewis, 1914.
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Sinclair Lewis.
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Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis.
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