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Features: DVD, Collector's Edition, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Documentaries, Newsreel, English, Spanish, French Subtitled, 4 Discs
Based on one the best selling books of all time, Gone With The Wind stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed. Vivien Leigh is Scarlett to Clark Gable's Rhett in cinema's greatest epic of passion and adventure. With its immortal cast, magnificent cinematography and sweeping score, this cherished classic continues to thrill audiences today.
"America's most popular film!" Los Angeles Times
"One of the greatest of all Hollywood productions." Roger Ebert
Editor's Note
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 Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett's passion. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett's first two marriages. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. GONE WITH THE WIND stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; English Mono | | Documentaries: "Melanie Remembers: Olivia de Havilland Recalls Gone With The Wind"; "Clark Gable: A King Remembered"; "Vivien Leigh: Scarlet And Beyond"; "The Making Of A Legend: Gone With The Wind: Restoring A Legend"; "The Old South" | | Interactive Menus | | Newsreel Footage From 1939 Atlanta And 1961 Civil War Centennial Atlanta Premieres | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Newsreel : Footage from 1939 Atlanta and 1961 Civil War Centennial Atlanta premieres | | Documentaries: Melanie Remembers: Olivia de Havilland Recalls Gone with the Wind, Clark Gable: A King Remembered, Vivien Leigh: Scarlet and Beyond, The Making of A Legend: Gone With The Wind, Restoring a Legend and The Old South | | Full Screen Presentation |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/13/2007 |
| Running Time: 238 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1939 | | Catalog ID: 65917 | | UPC: 00012569591721 | | Number of Discs: 4 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Technicolor |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1940) |  | Vivien Leigh, Winner, Best Actress | | Hattie McDaniel, Winner, Best Supporting Actress | | David O. Selznick, Winner, Best Picture | | Lyle R. Wheeler, Winner, Best Art Direction | | Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan, Winner, Best Cinematography, Color | | Victor Fleming, Winner, Best Director | | Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom, Winner, Best Film Editing | | Sidney Howard, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay | | | Clark Gable, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Fred Aldin, et al., Nominee, Best Effects, Special Effects | | | Max Steiner, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | | | Thomas T. Moulton, Nominee, Best Sound, Recording | | | Olivia de Havilland, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...For contemporary audiences, a vertiable shock of pleasure....Weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible..." -- Rating: A 07/17/1998 p.62Los Angeles Times
"...Greater than ever....The older it gets, and we with it, the more we're able to see in it..." 03/02/1989 p.C14 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is still a great film, above all, because it tells a great story..." 12/02/1994 p.42 USA Today
"...[A] masterpiece....Gorgeous whether you're watching moving images or frozen ones..." 01/03/1992 p.3D Premiere
"...The Everest of grand Hollywood moviemaking..." 12/01/2003 p.4 Total Film
"One of those rare moments when stars align, and the perfect actress finds the perfect role at the perfect time." 03/01/2004 p.7 Uncut
"Leigh is electric, wicked, incorrigible, lovely." 01/01/2005 p.157 Apollo Guide 10 of 10
The huge and spectacular story of Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler and the US Deep South in Civil War d
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 10 of 10
If not the greatest movie ever made, certainly one of the greatest examples of storytelling on film, - Leonard Maltin
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