In attempting to satisfy the limited group who have applauded Fitzgerald's novel, and also the unlimited group who wouldn't read the book on a bet, Mr. Brenon has fallen between two stools.

| Oct 5, 2021

It has the usual theatrical deficiencies of stories not originally conceived for the stage; but Owen Davis has adapted it very adroitly, keeping as much of the original dialogue as possible and filling in the gaps with intelligence and a happy invention.

| Jul 14, 2021

Most of the rest of Scott Fitzgerald's splendid story is brought out in the picture, but somewhere, in the translation into a mile of celluloid, the finer parts of the typed version have been lost.

| May 19, 2021

It is well done, but many persons will wonder whether it was worth doing at all. Seeing it will make nobody happy, nor will it send anybody away feeling more fit to battle against his own troubles.

| May 19, 2021

Fitzgerald has certainly exposed to the public view modern life as one strata of society lives it. And the producers of the picture have made the presentation mode vivid.

| May 19, 2021

An interesting and intelligent picturization of a good novel.

| May 19, 2021

If you liked the book... you will like the picture better. If you liked the play -- you'll like the picture better. If you didn't care for either the book or the play -- you WILL care for the picture. THAT, if you ask me, is praise!

| May 19, 2021

[Gatsby] emerges from the picture, much as he did from the book, a lonely, intensely interesting figure.

| May 19, 2021

Somewhat dissatisfying.

| May 19, 2021

Pitilessly baring the tragedy and the artificiality of socalled "Long Island high life," [The Great Gatsby] is one of the best pictures which Herbert Brenon has ever made.

| May 19, 2021

It is by all odds one of the finest dramas of this season. In it Warner Baxter blossoms out as an actor of depth and feeling.

| May 19, 2021

Herbert Brenon has gone about misinterpreting F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel to the very best of his ability.

| May 19, 2021

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the great war's aftermath presented unusual film difficulties. Herbert Brenon, the director, has managed to retain much of the feeling of the story.

| May 19, 2021

I think The Great Gatsby is pretty much flop. Further, I think the director flopped it.

| May 19, 2021

Occasionally it is a little bit silly and when it is not silly it is difficult to believe that "they're still doing that sort of thing" on the screen.

| Aug 1, 2020

None of the psychology of Gatsby's character; which is the reason for the story, is transferred to the screen. He might as well be a dramatized tailor's dummy for all the interest he arouses.

| Jul 29, 2020

The story follows the novel most religiously, but whether that has been in the best judgment is doubtful... The story doesn't seem weighty enough for the footage it consumes.

| Jul 29, 2020

It's a sophisticated story, told with first-rate lights and shadows. The spirit of the original is there with plenty to spare.

| Jul 29, 2020

Although Mr. Brenon has included the tragic note at the end, he has succumbed to a number of ordinary movie flashes without inculcating much in the way of subtlety. Neither he nor the players have succeeded in fully developing the characters.

| Jul 2, 2020

As a general entity the screen version of The Great Gatsby is good stuff... All the niceties and un-niceties of fast Long Island life of the type Fitzgerald dotes on criticizing and exposing are capable of elaborate exposition.

| Jul 2, 2020