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Gone With the Wind (1939)

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Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 63 | Rotten: 3

Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.

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Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 2

Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.

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Movie Info

Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical 3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh)

G, 3 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Romance, Classics

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Sidney Howard

Mar 7, 2000

New Line Cinema

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All Critics (66) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (3) | DVD (34)

The cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years.

February 17, 2009 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.

February 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.

December 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
Chicago Reader
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The film that perhaps defines Hollywood.

December 7, 2004 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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'It' has arrived at last, and we cannot get over the shock of not being disappointed; we had almost been looking forward to that.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Everything old is new again with this re-release of Gone With the Wind, and it reminds us that the Golden Age of Hollywood was a beautiful time.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Film.com
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The golden standard for classic Hollywood bombast, this one.

July 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Film and Felt | Comment
Film and Felt

If ever the phrase, "They don't make 'em like they used to" could fit a film, this is it.

June 27, 2011 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

The epic film that to this day stands as the benchmark against which all other epics are judged.

January 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comments (2)
Antagony & Ecstasy

One of the ten best home video (re-)releases of 2009

December 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Orange County and Long Beach Blade | Comment
Orange County and Long Beach Blade

Still one of Hollywood's best sweeping epics.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

It looks magnificent in its Blu-ray debut, with color that looks as if it's lit from within, a particular kind of warmth unique to this era of Technicolor...

December 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com | Comment
Seanax.com

Gone with the Wind is still dated, but it's a dynamite kind of antiquity.

November 21, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
PopMatters

Gable's Rhett Butler is among the screen's most enduring heroes. (Blu-ray Ultimate Collector's Edition)

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Coordinating six filming units at once and presiding over 50-hour editing sessions, [Selznick] subsisted on a regular diet of thyroid extract, Benzedrine, and B-12 shots.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | Comment

It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.

February 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Grand old Hollywood at its most magnificent and melodramatic. Say what you like about the soapy characterisation and plotting, the spectacle flattens all in its wake.

February 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

A lost Hollywood art: the epic melodrama.

October 14, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.

October 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment
Oscar Guy

Despite the star power of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Wind has lost some of its bluster, yet it survives as a glorious Technicolored window into America's dusty, bygone past.

July 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Gone With the Wind

The American Civil War, a contest so piddling that we are still contesting its basic arguments even today (hello Tea Partiers!), is only a blurry background and mere plot device in this lavish chick flick dedicated to perhaps the screen's largest anti-heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, who pointedly makes her selfishness a cult

July 22, 2007
moonrivers

Super Reviewer

Restritos são os filmes que conseguem a façanha de tornarem-se lendas em seu próprio tempo. ...E o Vento Levou pode ser considerado um desses raros exemplos. Tido como uma das representações máximas de como um épico cinematográfico deve ser, o filme é provavelmente o maior representante da Era de Ouro de Hollywood. Uma

August 8, 2011
Matheus Carvalho

Super Reviewer

    1. Rhett Butler: Take a good look my dear. It's an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about - how you watched the Old South fall one night.
    – Submitted by Andy A (30 days ago)
    1. Rhett Butler: No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.
    – Submitted by Andy A (30 days ago)
    1. Cathleen Calvert: That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
    2. Scarlett O'Hara: He looks as if, as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.
    – Submitted by Daniella G (8 months ago)
    1. Scarlett O'Hara: Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
    – Submitted by Daniella G (8 months ago)
    1. Rhett Butler: Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
    – Submitted by Kacia E (8 months ago)

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