A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.
Laura Mason
- Twin
- (as Lynne Romer)
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- TriviaShortly before releasing The Great Gatsby (1974) in cinemas, Paramount Pictures suppressed the distribution of nitrate prints for The Great Gatsby (1926) and The Great Gatsby (1949) to deter theaters from playing those earlier versions instead of their upcoming 1974 version. This decision led to prints for both films being lost. Decades later, in 2012, a print of the 1949 version was rediscovered. The 1926 version is still lost.
- GoofsFor the mid-1920s scene of car-loads of youngsters driving hot-rods while drinking hooch, the women are attired in mid-1930s fashions.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Screen Writer (1950)
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Ladd Understood....
ALAN LADD was the perfect actor for THE GREAT GATSBY, and his performance in this film captures F. Scott Fitzgerald's tragic hero with every nuance, every movement, every hidden torment. Ladd wanted to do this role, although he had his anxieties (as was noted by my friend Geraldine Fitzgerald). Nonetheless, he succeeds splendidly as Gatsby - a definitive characterization that should be seen. Redford had the right stuff, to a large extent, but the Redford-Farrow version is far too overblown with far too many missing, and important, elements in the plot. As for the Ladd version, it is true that Betty Field, a superb actress, was not right for Daisy -- there is far too much intelligence in her interpretation. Nor are Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, and Macdonald Carey altogether satisfactory either. BUT the adaptation is closest to Fitzgerald, and the Ladd, of the later scenes in particular, is a tragic figure - truly reaching the heights of one of America's finest novels. And one that is ageless...
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- churei
- Apr 2, 2004
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- Also known as
- El gran Gatsby
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- Gross US & Canada
- $4,360,000
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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