{"id":41759,"date":"2019-01-01T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=41759"},"modified":"2020-11-28T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:15:15","slug":"great-gatsby-the-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=41759","title":{"rendered":"Great Gatsby, The (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;If a smart man sees something he wants, he just stakes his claim to it!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster-768x1169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Poster.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA bonds salesman (Macdonald Carey) recounts the story of his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan (Betty Field), who married a womanizing wealthy man (Barry Sullivan) rather than wait for her true love &#8212; Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) &#8212; to return from World War I and make a name for himself. Eleven years later, bootlegger Gatsby purchases a home near Daisy, determined to win back her love; meanwhile, Sullivan carries on an affair with the unhappy wife (Shelley Winters) of a garage shop owner (Howard Da Silva).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alan Ladd Films<\/li>\n<li>Betty Field Films<\/li>\n<li>Elisha Cook Jr. Films<\/li>\n<li>Obsessive Love<\/li>\n<li>Shelley Winters Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nOther than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XGx-78RRu5g\">lost silent film from 1926<\/a>, this hard-to-find flick &#8212; made after F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s death, but before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Gatsby\">his book<\/a> became such a widely-read staple in American high schools &#8212; is notable as the first cinematic attempt to translate this classic novel for the screen. Alan Ladd is well-cast as the title character, a self-made millionaire whose love for a &#8220;careless&#8221; socialite becomes his downfall. Unfortunately, the film itself is rather forgettable, deviating from the novel in its focus on Gatsby&#8217;s hard-scrabble past and criminal background as a bootlegger (Elisha Cook, Jr. shows up as one of his employees), and highlighting the potential romance between Nick Carraway (Carey) and a cynical golfer-friend (Ruth Hussey) of the Buchanans. This adaptation remains permanently overshadowed <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=41777\">by the big-budget version<\/a> &#8212; co-starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow &#8212; released in 1974, which unfortunately also fails to &#8220;do justice&#8221; to the book and its enduring themes.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Seitz&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-41761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still-128x94.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Great-Gatsby-1949-Still.jpg 1358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one is simply a curiosity for those interested in seeing all available adaptations of the novel. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041428\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1949\/07\/14\/archives\/the-screen-in-review-the-great-gatsby-based-on-novel-of-f-scott.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If a smart man sees something he wants, he just stakes his claim to it!&#8221; Synopsis: A bonds salesman (Macdonald Carey) recounts the story of his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan (Betty Field), who married a womanizing wealthy man (Barry Sullivan) rather than wait for her true love &#8212; Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) &#8212; to return from World War I and make a name for himself. Eleven years later, bootlegger Gatsby purchases a home near Daisy, determined to win back her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=41759\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41759"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55554,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41759\/revisions\/55554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}