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

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.

A lost Hollywood art: the epic melodrama.

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

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.

What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?

Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom

Well, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.