The Great Gatsby [Import]
A Great Cast... A Great Novel... A Great Motion Picture
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Howard Da Silva & Shelley Winters | |
Performer: | Elisha Cook, Jr., Ed Begley, Henry Hull, Walter Greaza, Tito Vuolo & Jack Lambert | |
Directed by | Elliott Nugent | |
Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Maibaum & Cyril Hume | |
Original story by | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
Composition by | Robert Emmett Dolan | |
Cinematography by | John F. Seitz | |
Art Direction by | Roland Anderson & Hans Dreier | |
Produced by | Richard Maibaum |
Entertainment Reviews:
Elliott Nugent's direction skips along the surface of the era depicted. The script doesn't give him much substance to work with.
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Variety
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.
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Time Out
The F. Scott Fitzgerald characters never come entirely to life. Alan Ladd tries hard as the fated young opportunist.
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Associated Press
Not much is made of the 20s Long Island setting and, like the other film versions, it fails to capture the elusive style of the novel.
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Film4
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum have achieved a dutiful plotting of the novel without the substance of life that made it stick.
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New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Elliott Nugent directs with some atmospheric touches, but can't counter screenwriter Richard Maibaum's verbosity.
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Radio Times
Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
The second screen adaptation (after the silent 1926 version) of Fitzgerald's story features a fine performance by Ladd in the Nick Carraway role. A searching young man observes the Jazz Age society of Long Island as go-between for an upwardly mobile gangster and a frivolous woman trying to rekindle a romantic spark.
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- UPC: 9337369006925
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