Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

This film moves at a good pace and is every bit as entertaining as it is informative. The delightful soundtrack brings the time period to life and gets the toes tapping. Overall, this movie Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story is a great piece of detective work exploring the premise that famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for his book, The Great Gatsby, came from his experience of living in the town of Westport, Connecticut as opposed to taking place in Great Neck, New York as he describes it in the book and as several scholars believed it to be. While many have written about Fitzgerald and the origins of where the Great Gatsby was based upon, this film pinpoints many convincing reasons to believe that in fact, it could indeed have been based on Westport, right down to the green flashing light at the end of the doc that Fitzgerald writes about in his book. The consistency of facts, events and places that match those in Westport, makes for a convincing case but the movie is more than that. For me, just as interesting and entertaining was learning about this peak time in the author's life during the 1920s that he spent with Zelda, his then new bride, in Westport and to know more about their relationship. The movie includes several clips from the 1974 movie, The Great Gatsby. Seeing the lifestyle of this elite class during a boom time in American history after the war with all the good and bad that can come with an excessive lifestyle was interesting to watch and contrast against today's time period.