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The Great Gatsby Reviews
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
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
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
There are materials for a fine story in The Great Gatsby, and indeed the picture has passages which are deeply moving. But the general effect of it has been spoilt in the handling.
| Jul 2, 2020