I hate how Hollywood changes books and makes them syrupy, feel-good stories, like Elmer Gantry for example.

The movie version ends with Elmer being a changed man who has seen the light is now able to see clearly. Yikes!

"When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. St Paul, First Corinthians"

Here's that bit, as he sings with Patti Page