Gone with the Wind (1939)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Victor Fleming
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Writers:

Margaret Mitchell (novel)
Sidney Howard (screenplay)
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Release Date:

17 January 1941 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | War

Tagline:

Now in 70mm. wide screen and full stereophonic sound! [reissue]

Plot:

American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Plot Keywords:

Love | Civil War | Poverty | American South | American Civil War

Awards:

Won 8 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Thomas Mitchell	...	Gerald O'Hara
Barbara O'Neil	...	Ellen O'Hara - His Wife (as Barbara O'Neill)
Vivien Leigh	...	Scarlett - Their Daughter
Evelyn Keyes	...	Suellen - Their Daughter
Ann Rutherford	...	Carreen - Their Daughter
George Reeves	...	Brent Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau
Fred Crane	...	Stuart Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau
Hattie McDaniel	...	Mammy - House Servant
Oscar Polk	...	Pork - House Servant
Butterfly McQueen	...	Prissy - House Servant
Victor Jory	...	Jonas Wilkerson - Field Overseer
Everett Brown	...	Big Sam - Field Foreman
Howard C. Hickman	...	John Wilkes (as Howard Hickman)
Alicia Rhett	...	India - His Daughter
Leslie Howard	...	Ashley - His Son
Olivia de Havilland	...	Melanie Hamilton - Their Cousin
Rand Brooks	...	Charles Hamilton - Her Brother
Carroll Nye	...	Frank Kennedy - Guest
Clark Gable	...	Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston
Laura Hope Crews	...	Aunt 'Pittypat' Hamilton
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson	...	Uncle Peter - Her Coachman (as Eddie Anderson)
Harry Davenport	...	Dr. Meade
Leona Roberts	...	Mrs. Meade
Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Merriwether
Ona Munson	...	Belle Watling
Paul Hurst	...	Yankee Deserter
Isabel Jewell	...	Emmy Slattery
Cammie King	...	Bonnie Blue Butler
Eric Linden	...	Amputation Case
J.M. Kerrigan	...	Johnny Gallagher
Ward Bond	...	Tom - Yankee Captain
Jackie Moran	...	Phil Meade
Cliff Edwards	...	Reminiscent Soldier
Lillian Kemble-Cooper	...	Bonnie's Nurse in London (as L. Kemble-Cooper)
Yakima Canutt	...	Renegade
Marcella Martin	...	Cathleen Calvert
Louis Jean Heydt	...	Hungry Soldier Holding Beau Wilkes
Mickey Kuhn	...	Beau Wilkes
Olin Howland	...	A Carpetbagger Businessman
Irving Bacon	...	Corporal
Robert Elliott	...	Yankee Major
William Bakewell	...	Mounted Officer
Mary Anderson	...	Maybelle Merriwether
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eric Alden	...	Rafe Calvert (uncredited)
John Arledge	...	Dying Soldier (uncredited)
Roscoe Ates	...	Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks	...	Gentleman at Twelve Oaks Barbecue (uncredited)
Daisy Bufford	...	Housemaid at Evening Prayers (uncredited)
Ann Bupp	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
James Bush	...	Gentleman (uncredited)
Ruth Byers	...	Housemaid at Evening Prayers (uncredited)
Gary Carlson	...	Beau Wilkes (uncredited)
Louise Carter	...	Bandleader's Wife (uncredited)
Shirley Chambers	...	Belle's Girl (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler	...	Sergeant at Hospital (uncredited)
Wallis Clark	...	Poker-Playing Captain (uncredited)
Frank Coghlan Jr.	...	Collapsing Soldier (uncredited)
Gino Corrado	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Martina Cortina	...	Housemaid at Twelve Oaks (uncredited)
Luke Cosgrave	...	Bandleader (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps	...	Yankee Soldier in Shantytown (uncredited)
Ned Davenport	...	Jewel Collector at Bazaar (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril	...	Belle's Girl (uncredited)
Lester Dorr	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Phyllis Douglas	...	Bonnie Blue Butler - Age 2 (uncredited)
Joan Drake	...	Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
F. Driver	...	Housemaid at Evening Prayers (uncredited)
Edythe Elliott	...	General's Wife (uncredited)
Susan Falligant	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth	...	Soldier (uncredited)
Frank Faylen	...	Soldier Aiding Dr. Meade (uncredited)
Kelly Griffin	...	Bonnie Blue Butler as Newborn (uncredited)
George Hackathorne	...	Wounded Soldier in Pain (uncredited)
C. Hamilton	...	Yankee Soldier in Shantytown (uncredited)
Evelyn Harding	...	Cancan Girl (uncredited)
Inez Hatchett	...	Housemaid at Twelve Oaks (uncredited)
Jean Heker	...	Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Ricky Holt	...	Melanie's Son (uncredited)
Shep Houghton	...	Southern Dandy (uncredited)
Si Jenks	...	Yankee on Street (uncredited)
Tommy Kelly	...	Boy in Band (uncredited)
W. Kirby	...	Yankee Soldier in Shantytown (uncredited)
Margaret Mann	...	Woman writing letter at Atlanta church hospital (uncredited)
William McClain	...	Old Levi (uncredited)
George Meeker	...	Poker-Playing Captain (uncredited)
Charles Middleton	...	Townsperson with stove pipe hat (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Alberto Morin	...	Rene Picard (uncredited)
Adrian Morris	...	Carpetbagger Orator (uncredited)
Lee Murray	...	Drummerboy (uncredited)
H. Nellman	...	Yankee Soldier in Shantytown (uncredited)
David Newell	...	Cade Calvert (uncredited)
Naomi Pharr	...	Housemaid at Evening Prayers (uncredited)
Lee Phelps	...	Bartender (uncredited)
Jolane Reynolds	...	Cancan Girl (uncredited)
Marjorie Reynolds	...	Guest at Twelve Oaks (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgeway	...	Cancan Girl (uncredited)
Louisa Robert	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Azarene Rogers	...	Housemaid at Twelve Oaks (uncredited)
Tom Seidel	...	Tony Fontaine (uncredited)
William Stack	...	Minister (uncredited)
William Stelling	...	Returning Veteran (uncredited)
Harry Strang	...	Tom's Aide (uncredited)
Dirk Wayne Summers	...	Youngest Boy in Band (uncredited)
Emerson Treacy	...	Minor Role (uncredited)
Phillip Trent	...	Gentleman / Bearded Confederate on Steps of Tara (uncredited)
Julia Ann Tuck	...	Bonnie at Six Months (uncredited)
Tom Tyler	...	Commanding Officer During Evacuation (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel	...	Gentleman at Twelve Oaks Barbecue (uncredited)
E. Alyn Warren	...	Frank Kennedy's Clerk (uncredited)
Blue Washington	...	Renegade's Companion (uncredited)
Dan White	...	Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Sarah Whitley	...	Housemaid at Twelve Oaks (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman	...	Carpetbagger's Friend (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson	...	Wounded Card Player (uncredited)
Zack Williams	...	Elijah (uncredited)
John Wray	...	Prison Gang Overseer (uncredited)

Directed by
Victor Fleming
George Cukor		(uncredited)
Sam Wood		(uncredited)

Writing credits
Margaret Mitchell		(novel)
Sidney Howard		(screenplay)
Oliver H.P. Garrett		contributing writer (uncredited)
Ben Hecht		contributing writer (uncredited)
Jo Swerling		contributing writer (uncredited)
John Van Druten		contributing writer (uncredited)

Produced by
David O. Selznick	....	producer

Original Music by
Max Steiner

Cinematography by
Ernest Haller		(photographed by)
Lee Garmes		(photographed by) (uncredited)

Casting by
Charles Richards		(uncredited)
Fred Schuessler		(uncredited)

Production Design by
William Cameron Menzies

Art Direction by
Lyle R. Wheeler		(as Lyle Wheeler)

Set Decoration by
Howard Bristol		(uncredited)

Costume Design by
Walter Plunkett

Makeup Department
Sydney Guilaroff	....	hair stylist: Miss Leigh (uncredited)
Ben Nye	....	associate hair stylist (uncredited)
Ben Nye	....	associate makeup artist (uncredited)
Hazel Rogers	....	associate hair stylist (uncredited)
Hazel Rogers	....	associate makeup artist (uncredited)
Monte Westmore	....	hair stylist (uncredited)
Monte Westmore	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Raymond A. Klune	....	production manager
William J. Scully	....	unit manager (uncredited)
Daniel T. Shea	....	assistant production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Eric Stacey	....	assistant director (as Eric G. Stacey)
Peter Ballbusch	....	second unit director (uncredited)
Ridgeway Callow	....	second assistant director (uncredited)
B. Reeves Eason	....	second unit director (uncredited)
Arthur Fellows	....	second second assistant director (uncredited)
James A. FitzPatrick	....	second unit director: Southern backgrounds (uncredited)
Harve Foster	....	first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
Chester M. Franklin	....	second unit director: Chico unit (uncredited)
William Cameron Menzies	....	second unit director (uncredited)
John Sherwood	....	second second assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
Ralph Slosser	....	second assistant director: second unit (uncredited)

Art Department
Edward G. Boyle	....	interior decorator
Joseph B. Platt	....	interiors
Harold Coles	....	property manager (uncredited)
Arden Cripe	....	on-set propmaster (uncredited)
Hobe Erwin	....	set designer (uncredited) (replaced)
Harold Fenton	....	construction superintendent (uncredited)
James Forney	....	drapes (uncredited)
Dorothea Holt	....	illustrator (uncredited)
Ross B. Jackman	....	propmaker (uncredited)
J. McMillan Johnson	....	production illustrator (uncredited)
Roy McLaughlin	....	greensman (uncredited)
Joseph B. Platt	....	set designer (uncredited)
George Rule	....	assistant property master (uncredited)
Henry J. Stahl	....	art department supervisor (uncredited)
Florence Yoch	....	landscaping: Tara (uncredited)

Sound Department
Frank Maher	....	sound recordist
Fred Albin	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)
Fred Albin	....	sound re-recordist (uncredited)
Ellis Burman	....	sound restoration engineer (restored version) (uncredited)
T.A. Carman	....	boom operator (uncredited)
Arthur Johns	....	sound effects editor (uncredited)
Arthur Johns	....	sound re-recordist (uncredited)
Thomas T. Moulton	....	sound director (uncredited)
Gordon Sawyer	....	supervising sound editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Jack Cosgrove	....	special photographic effects
R.D. Musgrave	....	mechanical effects supervisor (uncredited)
Lee Zavitz	....	fire effects (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
F.R. Abbott	....	back projection (uncredited)
Haller Belt	....	back projection (uncredited)
Alan Cook	....	back projection (uncredited)
Byron L. Crabbe	....	matte artist (uncredited)
Fitch Fulton	....	matte artist (uncredited)
Jack Shaw	....	matte artist (uncredited)
Albert Simpson	....	matte artist (uncredited)
Clarence Slifer	....	special effects cinematographer (uncredited)

Stunts
Yakima Canutt	....	stunt coordinator (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt	....	stunt double: Clark Gable (uncredited)
B. Reeves Eason	....	stunts (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth	....	stunts (uncredited)
Frank Fawcett	....	stunt double: Paul Hurst (uncredited)
Lila Finn	....	stunt double: Vivien Leigh (uncredited)
Aline Goodwin	....	stunt double: Vivien Leigh (uncredited)
Carey Harrison	....	stunts (uncredited)
Richard Smith	....	stunt double: Cammie King (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel	....	stunts (uncredited)
Hazel Warp	....	stunt double: Vivien Leigh (uncredited)
Jack Williams	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Arthur E. Arling	....	camera operator (uncredited)
R.J. Campbell	....	rigging gaffer (uncredited)
Roy Clark	....	second assistant camera (uncredited)
Vincent J. Farrar	....	camera operator (uncredited)
Paul Hill	....	assistant camera (uncredited)
Paul Ivano	....	director of photography: second unit (uncredited)
Wally Oettel	....	electrical superintendent (uncredited)
Roy F. Overbaugh	....	camera department head (uncredited)
Fred Parrish	....	still photographer (uncredited)
James Potevin	....	chief electrician (uncredited)
Harold Rosson	....	director of photography: second unit (uncredited)
Cliff Shirpser	....	assistant camera: Technicolor (uncredited)
Karl Struss	....	director of photography: Technicolor tests (uncredited)
Arthur Williams	....	second assistant camera (uncredited)
Fred Williams	....	chief grip (uncredited)
Harry L. Wolf	....	camera operator (uncredited)

Casting Department
Harvey Clermont	....	casting assistant (uncredited)
Charles Richards	....	casting manager (uncredited)
Fred Schuessler	....	casting manager (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marion Dabney	....	associate wardrobe supervisor (uncredited)
Elmer Ellsworth	....	associate wardrobe supervisor (uncredited)
John Frederics	....	hat designer: Scarlett (uncredited)
Edward P. Lambert	....	wardrobe supervisor (uncredited)
Edward Maeder	....	consultant: costumes (uncredited)
Michi Okubo	....	costumer (uncredited)
Eddie Schmidt	....	tailor: Mr. Gable (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Hal C. Kern	....	supervising editor
James E. Newcom	....	associate editor
Ernie Leadlay	....	assistant film editor (uncredited)
Richard L. Van Enger	....	assistant film editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Louis Forbes	....	assistant musical director (as Lou Forbes)
William Axt	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
R.H. Bassett	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Maurice De Packh	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Adolph Deutsch	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)
Adolph Deutsch	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Hugo Friedhofer	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)
Hugo Friedhofer	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Stuart Frye	....	music editor (uncredited)
Bernhard Kaun	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Earl B. Mounce	....	music mixer (uncredited)
Joseph Nussbaum	....	music arranger (uncredited)
Heinz Roemheld	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)
Max Steiner	....	conductor (uncredited)
Franz Waxman	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Joyce Allen	....	transportation coordinator (uncredited)
George Doan	....	transportation coordinator (uncredited)

Other crew
Wilfred M. Cline	....	associate: Technicolor (as Wilfrid M. Cline)
Natalie Kalmus	....	supervisor: Technicolor Co.
Barbara Keon	....	scenario assistant
Wilbur G. Kurtz	....	historian
Susan Myrick	....	technical advisor
Will Price	....	technical advisor
Ray Rennahan	....	associate: Technicolor
Betty Baldwin	....	executive secretary: Mr. Selznick (uncredited)
Peter Ballbusch	....	montage director (uncredited)
Russell Birdwell	....	publicist (uncredited)
Katherine Brown	....	story editor: Eastern (uncredited)
William Clark	....	wrangler (uncredited)
Lillian K. Deighton	....	researcher (uncredited)
Howard Dietz	....	publicist: Atlanta and New York premieres (uncredited)
Connie Earl	....	script clerk (uncredited)
Frank Floyd	....	dance director (uncredited)
Henry Ginsberg	....	studio manager (uncredited)
Charles Handley	....	consultant: National Carbon Corp. (uncredited)
Carey Harrison	....	riding double: Thomas Mitchell (uncredited)
William Hebert	....	assistant: Mr. Dietz (uncredited)
Will Hill	....	technical advisor (uncredited)
Winton C. Hoch	....	consultant: Technicolor Color Company (uncredited)
Henri Jaffa	....	associate supervisor: Technicolor Co. (uncredited)
David Joy	....	consultant: National Carbon Corp. (uncredited)
Val Lewton	....	story editor (uncredited)
Al Lichtman	....	agent: Loew's Inc. (uncredited)
Mason N. Litson	....	location manager (uncredited)
Franclein Macconnel	....	script reader (uncredited)
William S. McCune	....	production assistant (uncredited)
Mozelle Miller	....	stand-in: Ms. Leigh (uncredited)
Richard Mueller	....	color advisor (uncredited)
R.D. Musgrave	....	mechanical engineer (uncredited)
Eddie Prinz	....	dance director (uncredited)
Lydia Schiller	....	script clerk (uncredited)
Myron Selznick	....	production associate (uncredited)
Howard Strickling	....	unit publicist (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey	....	double: Leslie Howard (uncredited)
Frank Whitbeck	....	trailer supervisor (uncredited)
C.V. Whitney	....	production associate (uncredited)
John Hay Whitney	....	production associate (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Selznick International Pictures
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (in association with)

Distributors

• Loew's (1939) (USA) (theatrical) (as Loew's Incorporated)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1939) (USA) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1947) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1954) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1961) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1968) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1971) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Home Box Office (HBO) (1976) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1976) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Lucernafilm - Alfa (1992) (Czechoslovakia) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1953) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Neue Visionen Filmverleih (1990) (West Germany) (theatrical) (re-release)
• MGM Home Entertainment (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (USA) (VHS)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (USA) (laserdisc)
• MGM/UA (2000) (Germany) (DVD)
• New Line Cinema (1998) (re-release)
• Prem'er Video Fil'm (Russia) (VHS)
• Producciones JES (1989) (Colombia) (TV)
• Warner Home Video (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production (1998 release)
• Max Factor  wigs (uncredited)
• Mole Richardson  arc lamps (uncredited)
• National Carbon Corp.  arc lamps (uncredited)
• Samuel Goldwyn Studios  sound recording (uncredited)
• Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation  auxilliary optical system (uncredited)

Runtime:

USA:238 min (restored DVD version) | Sweden:223 min (1969 re-release) | Sweden:234 min (1985 re-release) | UK:224 min (1994 re-release) | UK:233 min (1989 re-release) | 226 min (copyright length)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-11 (2004) | Brazil:Livre | West Germany:12 (f) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Belgium:KT | Canada:G (British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Québec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:PG | Norway:16 | Peru:PT | South Korea:12 | Sweden:11 (re-release) (1985) | Sweden:15 (original rating) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | USA:Approved (PCA #5729) (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1971)

Filming Locations:

Agoura Hills, California, USA

Company:

Selznick International Pictures

Trivia:

Nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in the dismissal of director George Cukor. Rather, they show Selznick's mounting dissatisfaction with Cukor's slow pace and quality of work. Almost half of Cukor's scenes were scrapped or later re-shot by others. From a private letter from journalist Susan Myrick to Margaret Mitchell in February 1939: "George [Cukor] finally told me all about it. He hated [leaving the production] very much he said but he could not do otherwise. In effect he said he is an honest craftsman and he cannot do a job unless he knows it is a good job and he feels the present job is not right. For days, he told me he has looked at the rushes and felt he was failing... the things did not click as it should. Gradually he became convinced that the script was the trouble... So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the [Sidney] Howard script back... he would not let his name go out over a lousy picture... And bull-headed David said 'OK get out!'" Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor ("a very expensive luxury") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming. "I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it.... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts... ."

Goofs:

Continuity: When Ashley is leaving to return to the front from his furlough, Scarlett meets him at the bottom of the stairs with his coat, which then disappears.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
Stuart Tarleton: Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yanks may actually *want* a war?
Brent Tarleton: We'll show 'em!
Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
Brent Tarleton: Not going to be any war?
Stuart Tarleton: Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
Scarlett: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett...
Stuart Tarleton: Don't you *want* us to have a war?
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in SSI: Sex Squad Investigation (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

My Old Kentucky Home

Astounding Film - GWTW is the Definition of a Classic!

The setting is a Georgia plantation. The year is 1861, and sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara is infatuated with the blond, drowsy-eyed Ashley Wilkes - the problem is, Ashley plans to marry another woman. Little matter that every other man in the county is courting Scarlett and that a charming scoundrel named Rhett Butler is staring at her with questionable intent - she cares only for Ashley.

Suddenly, the Civil War brakes out, changing the fates and fortunes of all. Scarlett, clever, manipulative, and charming, proves an adept survivor - but what will she have to do to survive? And will she ever learn whom it is that she really loves?

GWTW is one of the most meticulously cast films ever; with the possible exception of Leslie Howard as Ashley (in his forties, rather old to be playing a man half that age), every role was perfectly assigned. After you watch Vivien Leigh you will be unable to imagine anyone else playing Scarlett, and Hattie McDaniel's strong, unforgettable performance as "Mammy" netted her an academy award (the first for an African-American actor).

GWTW's backdrop is the gruesome Civil War, and in the end this film is the story a woman and a civilization (the Old South) going through a war that will not leave either of them unchanged.

The cinematography is beautiful, memorable. Gone With the Wind was shot entirely in gorgeous technicolor; the scene of the fire in Atlanta required the use of all eight technicolor cameras in existence at the time.

The pragmatic may think Gone with the Wind overly dramatic; the restless may find it too long; the action-stimulated, too subtle. None of this, however, detracts from the fact that GWTW retains a lasting appeal as one of the crowning cinematic achievements of the 20th century. Those who see its ending as depressing - tragic, even - perhaps miss the point - which Scarlett O'Hara makes in her very last instant with us, tear-stained eyes uplifted in a sudden, curious burst of hope beneath all the turmoil; that .. . "After all, tomorrow is another day." 10/10