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Features: DVD, Collector's Edition, Book, Box Set
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 | Region [unknown] | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Dolby True HD 5.1 - English | | Subtitles - French, Spanish |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/17/2009 |
| Running Time: 233 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1939 | | UPC: 00883929039739 | | Number of Discs: 4 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Technicolor |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Academy Awards (1939) |  | Winner, Best Film Editing | | Winner, Best Picture | | Vivien Leigh, Winner, Best Actress | | Hattie McDaniel, Winner, Best Supporting Actress | | Victor Fleming, Winner, Best Director | | Sidney Howard, Winner, Best Adapted Screenplay | | Lyle Wheeler, Winner, Best Interior Decoration (b&w) | | Ray Rennahan, Winner, Best Cinematography | | Ernest Haller, Winner, Best Cinematography |
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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 |
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