The 1926 film version is supposed to be the best, but there are no known copies of it in existence.
The best one is the Alan Ladd version made in the 1940s. I was part of a Fitzgerald symposium back in 1997 in Montgomery, Alabama and the FSF Society rented a beautiful art deco theatre in town and screened it for us. I don’t know if it’s available.
“The 1926 film version is supposed to be the best, but there are no known copies of it in existence.”
I have to say I was forced to read the book in school and then taken to the movie, Redford/Farrow, by a lefty boyfriend (back when I hadn’t a clue) and thought it was a total boor.
I did find this trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asajgm-ciWA
Gee, that would be when F. Scott Fitzgerald would still be alive, boy, I’d like to see that one.
Did Fitzgerald have any input on it?