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The Great Gatsby (1949)

19495h 03mdir. Elliott NugentUnited Statesdrama film

Note: this print runs 303 minutes against a recorded 91 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Shelley Winters, Howard da Silva, Elisha Cook Jr., Henry Hull

Directed by Elliott Nugent

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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 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

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