Crashing the Gates is a play written by James M. Cain and produced by Philip Goodman in 1926.The play’s plot dramatizes the labor struggles in the West Virginia coal mines of the 1920s and the evangelical Christian fundamentalism prevalent among poor whites in the region. The tragic denouement anticipates the exposure of pseudo-clericism in Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry (1927). Crashing the Gates opened in New England, but it's didactic theme and profanity displeased audiences and the play closed shortly after its debut.
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