Rotten
Elliott Nugent's direction skips along the surface of the era depicted. The script doesn't give him much substance to work with.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Great Gatsby
A Great Cast... A Great Novel... A Great Motion Picture
1949 · 1h 31m · Approved
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Directed by
Elliott Nugent
Overview
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
Director and cast
- Elliott Nugent Director
- Alan Ladd as Jay Gatsby
- Betty Field as Daisy Buchanan
- Macdonald Carey as Nicholas 'Nick' Carraway
- Ruth Hussey as Jordan Baker
- Barry Sullivan as Tom Buchanaan
- Howard Da Silva as Wilson
- Shelley Winters as Myrtle Wilson
- Henry Hull as Dan Cody
- Ed Begley as Myron Lupus
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Klipspringer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
30%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum have achieved a dutiful plotting of the novel without the substance of life that made it stick.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities.
TIME Magazine
Fresh
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.
Time Out
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