The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1949 American historical romance drama film directed by Elliott Nugent, and produced by Richard Maibaum, from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume. The film stars Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, and Barry Sullivan, and features Shelley Winters and Howard Da Silva, the latter of whom later returned in the 1974 version. It is based on the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set during the raucous Jazz Age on Long Island near New York City, the plot follows the exploits of enigmatic millionaire and bootlegger Jay Gatsby who attempts to win back the affections of his former lover Daisy Buchanan with the aid of her second cousin Nick Carraway.
Plot
In 1948, a middle-aged Nick Carraway is married to ex-flapper Jordan Baker, and the happily married couple visit the grave of their deceased acquaintance Jay Gatsby. Carraway sermonizes that he did not approve of Gatsby's sinful life, and he quotes the Book of Proverbs condemning Gatsby's actions as wicked: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
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| author | Cyril Hume Richard Maibaum |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Elliott Nugent |
| editor | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| genre | drama historical romance |
| keywords | book of proverbs bootlegger drive duesenberg end flapper gas station jay gatsby kill long island long island sound married couple meet midwest midwestern united states prohibition in the united states roadster rum-running talk wild parties world war i |
| musicBy | Robert E. Dolan |
| producer | Richard Maibaum |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Los Angeles |
| theme | romantic drama |