The Great Gatsby 1949

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum have achieved a dutiful plotting of the novel without the substance of life that made it stick. Read more

TIME Magazine: Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities. Read more

Time Out: This scores over Jack Clayton's lavish and longer 1974 version by the casting of Alan Ladd as Gatsby, so much more convincing as a man with a dark and mysterious past than one-dimensional glamour-puss Robert Redford. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Elliott Nugent's direction skips along the surface of the era depicted. The script doesn't give him much substance to work with. Read more