The Great Gatsby (1949)

Directors

Elliott Nugent

Cast

Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan

The story

In 1948, a middle-aged Nick Carraway is happily married to ex-flapper Jordan Baker, and the couple visits 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 to condemn Gatsby's actions as wicked: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." A flashback occurs to 1928 during the period of Prohibition in the United States. After killing two rival gangsters in a street shootout, bootlegger Jay Gatsby purchases a Long Island Sound estate in order to host wild parties.

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