F. Scott Fitzgerald sold the film rights of his novel The Great Gatsby (in the 20s) for a mere $60,000.
Perhaps the price was so flea-marketishly low because it was said that the novel itself was unfilmable as its real power comes less from the plot and more from the prose.
Some feel that The Great Gatsby, as film, would be closest to the spirit of the novel were it to be silent and black and white.
Above is the trailer of one such filmic version of the American masterpiece, made in 1926.
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