a typical old b and w film . the dialogue be sometimes good and but too often especially in the second half they get naive and sometimes awfully naive and occasionally close to the point where they be unintentionally comical . the first third and with it background information on ladd gatsby show with a series of interesting flashback and be the best part of the movie . but once gatsby move into his new villa and make his move on betty field and the film get overly melodramatic . the end be yet another cop out end while i do not know whether the novel itself contain this dumb and clichéd end or whether the movie producer make some change to it and but i have always consider car accident to be a poor way to add drama to the conclusion of a story . i have see this plot device a million time ( or if it not a car and then it a fall from a horse ) while the writer doesn not know how to end the story but he know that he want it to be dramatic and so he add in a car accident . lame . and to make thing bad and the accident be outrageously coincidental and preposterous and both plot wise and time wise while plot wise because field husband mistress ( winter ) get kill by field and and the fact that winter sort of rush out from the gas station into the street a though she would never notice in the year that she have live in it that there be a dangerous road right across her house and and of course and at the very moment that she come out she see ladd car and mistake it for field husband car and then shout over here . i be here . run me over and make the end tragic that way . while time wise because ladd and field get involve in an accident at the very day when they be prepare to tell field husband about their affair . basically and there be just too much force and artificial irony in this accident . it also doesn not exactly help this movie how winter husband and da silva and go on a revenge mission to kill the guy who run over his wife while he basically do this by walk around like a zombie and go from car to car look for scratch and and act very badly indeed . both da silva acting and his character behaviour throughout the film be awful and confusing and respectively . scott fitzgerald be upset on a couple of occasion how his novel be adapt for the screen by hollywood screenwriter and and although he be dead long before this movie be do he might have be right to complain and judge by this film naive script . or and maybe his novel be even silly and more naive than this film and and be actually improve upon by the screen adaptation . or and the film be pretty much like the novel . i could and of course and read this particular novel to find out and but i just can not be bother . fitzgerald name doesn not exactly inspire me to read any of his book ( and i do not mean the way his name sound . ) he be certainly no heller and clavell and or twain . more like hemingway a lot of noise about nothing .