THE GREAT GATSBY
(Paramount) A "SOMEWHAT pathetic production, The Great Gatsby manages to be almost wholly bad because it naively purports to be what it is not-a faithful transcript of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. The Alan Ladd fans who rolled up to see their hero in another gangster role must have been pretty puzzled by his going all soft on that dame Daisy (Betty Field), while any Fitzgerald fans who misguidedly came along can have endured it only if they were great enthusiasts. For the spirit giveth life, but the letter killeth.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 24
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92THE GREAT GATSBY New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 548, 23 December 1949, Page 24
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