Gone with the Wind (1939)

	Directed by: Victor Fleming	COUNTRY USA GENRE Historical drama/romance NORWEGIAN TITLE Tatt av vinden RUNNING TIME 221 minutes
	Produced by: David O. Selznick
	Written by (based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell): Sidney Howard

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
The O'Hara Plantation in Georgia
Gerald O'Hara	Thomas Mitchell	½
Ellen Robillard	Barbara O'Neil	-
Scarlett O'Hara	Vivien Leigh	½
Suellen O'Hara	Evelyn Keyes	-
Carreen O'Hara	Ann Rutherford	-
The house servants
Mammy	Hattie McDaniel
Pork	Oscar Polk	½
Prissy	Butterfly McQueen	½
The Wilkes Plantation in Georgia
John Wilkes	Howard Hickman	-
India Wilkes	Alicia Rhett	-
Ashley Wilkes	Leslie Howard	½
Melanie Hamilton	Olivia de Havilland	½
Charles Hamilton	Rand Brooks
A visitor from Charleston
Rhett Butler	Clark Gable

Review

The most bombastic of all the classic Hollywood melodramas functions more as a curiosity than an actual film today, almost a century after it was released to much pomp and circumstance back in 1939, garnering a record 15 Academy Award nominations and winning eight. The pomposity leaps at you from the very first moment, as Gone with the Wind announces its Technicolor grandeur through a self-indulgent 7-minute intro to set the stage. The film certainly looks dazzling, with its grand sets and beautiful colours and compositions. Unfortunately, there's no escaping the story's hammy nature and the agonizing lengths the picture goes to in order to reach its obvious, not far-removed conclusions. At 221 minutes, Gone with the Wind is an excruciating hotch-potch of soap opera melodrama, and it has aged terribly.