It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.
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02/19/08
Gone With the Wind (1939)
97 %
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Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 56
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 3 hrs 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Dec 15, 1939 Wide
Synopsis: Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest, blockade-running profiteer Rhett... [More]
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
Director: Victor Fleming
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Reviews for Gone With the Wind
One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.
02/19/08
Top Critic 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.
02/19/08
A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.
12/12/06
Top Critic Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.
10/17/06
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.
07/12/06
What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?
06/24/06
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
06/27/05
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.
02/02/05
Top Critic It's so full of iconic moments of plotting and dialog that a feature film could be edited just out of the most quotable moments.
11/12/04
...producer David O. Selznick's crowning achievement and a film that stands up as one of the screen's finest classics.
11/05/04
One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.
10/31/04
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara remain the greatest pairing of irresistible force and immovable object in Hollywood romance.
06/18/03
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