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The Great Gatsby (1949)
Director: Elliott Nugent
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The first sound adaptation of Scott Fitzgerald's classic. Although some of the detail of the novel has been changed (and Betty Field gives an unusually weak performance, miscast as Daisy Buchanan), this scores over Jack Clayton's lavish and longer 1974 version by the casting of Alan Ladd as Gatsby, so much more convincing as a man with a dark and mysterious past than one-dimensional glamour-puss Robert Redford. At the same time, the picture is less a '20s costume drama than a '40s film noir, shot in moody monochrome by the maestro John F Seitz.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Elliott Nugent
Producer: Richard Maibaum
Cast: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, MacDonald Carey, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Howard da Silva full cast
Genre(s): Film Noir
Duration: 92 mins
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