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)
Featured review
Best of all The Great Gatsby films
This 1949 version of The Great Gatsby is infinitely better than either of its successors; the 1974 Redford version and the 2013 DiCaprio attempt. One of the primary problems of the newer versions is that it was more difficult to capture the authenticity of the time period the further away you got from it. That is a universal problem of several period films, like WW 2 movies. This original version, starring Alan Ladd, who is perfectly cast here, and Betty Field as Daisy (who is only outdone by Mia Farrow version of Daisy) who is very good, nevertheless. Barry Sullivan as Tom Buchanan is excellent in his role, as MacDonald Carey as F. Scott Fitzgerald (I mean Nick Carraway in the film).. This timeless story of careless, shallow people on Long Island hits the mark (as I know a few who live there myself). Don't miss this 1949 version; it is the best of the three.
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- arthur_tafero
- Aug 21, 2022
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- 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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