Gone with the Wind [Blu-ray] DTHD/DD5.1
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Product Details
Plot
- Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical 3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry "mealy mouthed" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at Twelve Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit of histrionics, all of which is witnessed by roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by the feisty, thoroughly self-centered Scarlett: "We're bad lots, both of us." The movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the destruction of a huge wall left over from King Kong) through the now-classic closing line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Holding its own against stiff competition (many consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical Hollywood studios), Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar). The film grossed nearly 192 million dollars, assuring that, just as he predicted, Selznick's epitaph would be "The Man Who Made Gone With the Wind." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Epic, Romance
- Women During Wartime, Love Triangles, Star-Crossed Lovers, Opposites Attract, Servants and Employers
- Sentimental, Lavish, Rousing, Earnest, Passionate, Sweeping
DVD Features
- Commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer
- AMG Rating
Review
- As epic as the 1,000-plus-page Margaret Mitchell bestseller on which it was based, David O. Selznick's production of Gone With the Wind (1939) went through three directors, a well-publicized search for Scarlett O'Hara, and a then-enormous four-million-dollar budget, resulting in one of the all-time highest-grossing movies. Sparing no expense on sets and costumes, Selznick aimed to produce the ultimate Technicolor blockbuster, faithfully adapting the book's Civil War era travails of Southern belle Scarlett and her roguish match, Rhett Butler. While the film is grand in scale (and length), its cast, especially relative unknown Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and MGM king Clark Gable as Rhett, made the narrative as engrossing as the spectacular recreation of the burning of Atlanta (in which old sets were torched). Premiering first in Atlanta, Gone With the Wind delivered on the promise of the hype, breaking box-office records. Earning an unprecedented 13 Oscar nominations, Gone With the Wind won eight statuettes and two special awards, taking Best Picture in Hollywood's "miraculous" year, as well as Best Director for Victor Fleming, and Best Actress for Vivien Leigh. Best Supporting Actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actor to win an Oscar. Perennially popular, Gone With the Wind inspired the 1994 sequel Scarlett. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Requirements
Blu-Ray Drive or Blu-Ray Player
Specifications
Reviews (65)
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5.0 / 5.0
I really liked this film...No wait, I LOVED THIS FILM and always have. Every time the opening title comes up I get goosebumps and I grin. This movie has humor, romance, sorrow, mourning, and makes you really appreciate the life that our ancestors had to live through. It touches me so much and I just can't get enough of this movie. I reccommend it to every single person out there.
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5.0 / 5.0
Gone With the Wind is my all time favorite movie, staring Vevien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, Clark Gable as Rhett Butler,Olivia de Havilend as Melanie Wilkes, and Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes. The best love story set in the old South that was ever written. Vevien Leigh played the Best in it. You should read the book as well!
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5.0 / 5.0
This is my ALL TIME favorite movie!! I get butterflys in m stomach just watching it! It makes me want 2 be just like Scarlett. Bold, Couragoues, and Unafraid. I wish I could have lived in the 1800's!
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2.0 / 5.0
In the eyes of many of its viewers, Gone With The Wind was, and always will be an absolute masterpiece. Ever since this classic came out, its enormous audiences have been memorized by the terrific acting performances and risqué screenplay, introducing the first obscenity ever heard in a motion picture. However, despite the movie¿s worldwide popularity, I believe that this movie has failed in a few different ways. Besides being excessively long and rather boring, its message and impact on audiences is long since extinct. Gone With The Wind is an exceptional portrayal of love and romance. Unfortunately, it¿s an exceptional portrayal of love and romance in the 1860s. In other words, audiences have found it difficult, if not impossible, to relate this movie to their own lives and to understand completely. The plot, which revolves mainly around Rhett Butler and Scarlett O¿Hara, is very dated: not only does it present a ¿fairy-tale¿ world, but it also presents an antique image of love. As a result, audiences are bored and tired at the conclusion of the film. Thus, I give this film three stars: it¿s a failed and outdated attempt at a great film for the 21st century.
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5.0 / 5.0
When it comes to classics, nothing beats GWTW. The colors, sound, feel....it's all there. The story of Scarlett and Rhett is better than any around. You can't go wrong with GWTW
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5.0 / 5.0
I am truly amazed at the short attention span of some and that everything and everyone needs to relate to them.Life is long and boring sometimes that is two reasons why movies were made.Historical fiction is exactly that HISTORICAL FICTION! If this movie was made today relating to modern issues with modern thinking and reasoning,it wouldn't be HISTORICAL but just FICTION. Great story,great acting,great cinematography and great diolog. A must see for the 21st century movie lover who tries to place himself in the era and not the era in today.
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5.0 / 5.0
I loved it.Really good movie.
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5.0 / 5.0
The first time I saw Gone With The WInd when I was six I fell in love!!! This movie is awesome!!! Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable take my breath away every time I watch this movie!!! This flim is a abosolute MASTERPEICE!!! It will alawys be my favorite and it touches me and makes my heart menlt like chocolate everytime I see it!!! Vivien is a AWESOME Scarlett O'Hara!!! They knew what they where doing when they chose her!!! Whenever this was first seen it has been a classic and is still getting more fame as the years pass by. It has the best acting of all time!!! Clark Gable was just as an awesome character than Vivien Leigh. Every actor in this flim is just right for their role. It was the role of Scalett O'Hara that made Vivien Leigh the remembered Hollywood legend that she is today!!!
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5.0 / 5.0
This was one of the best movies I have ever seen!It is pretty long, but it makes you laugh and cry and keeps you hooked till the end.A story of love, passion, tragedy and it has a good historical backround.All in all it was a great movie. =)
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5.0 / 5.0
that many people consider this the best movie ever made...unless you happen to be used to what comes out of Hollywood today... most of which is junk! Great story....great history....great love story...great acting.. and for it's time....extraordinary special effects....especially the burning of Atlanta. A classic that should be in any respectable video or DVD collection.
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5.0 / 5.0
Over 70 years have passed yet Gone With The Wind remains the yardstick by which all subsequent film epics have been judged. This Super Production of 1939 was the last word in Hollywood entertainment, a sprawling, bigger than life melodrama that was first and foremost a soap opera with the American Civil War as its enormous backdrop. With a then unprecedented running time of 3 hours and 40 minutes, including intermission, the film was an overpowering emotional experience for moviegoers at the time and it continues to enthrall viewers today. It has the perfect cast, Glorious Technicolor, magnificent sets and costumes and perhaps the greatest score ever written for a movie. To top it all off, it features the most indelible romantic pairing in the history of movies : Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Gable Was the epitome of author Margaret Mitchell's conception of Blockade Runner Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh, up until then a relatively unknown British actress, was Scarlett O'Hara right off the pages of Miss Mitchell's magnum opus. To this day, Vivien Leigh's performance as Scarlett is perhaps the most revered piece of movie acting by an actress in the History of Film. Acting styles may have changed drastically over the years but this remains a brilliant performance in any era. Producer David O. Selznick spent the rest of his life trying to duplicate his own masterpiece but was unsuccessful. His heavy breathing western spectacle Duel in the Sun was overripe kitsch and a late 50's remake of Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms was uninspired. His Portrait of Jennie in the late 40's came closest to an artistic achievement, a haunting romantic fantasy starring his wife Jennifer Jones. The enduring appeal of Gone With The Wind boils down to this : for nearly 4 hours the viewer is witness to life being lived, to characters experiencing the good and bad in life over a span of years, to a teeming semblance of history taking place (no matter that it's Hollywood History, the Reel thing as opposed to the Real thing). Other films have tried to duplicate its success : Lawrence of Arabia is a Thinking Man's epic, a triumph in its own right ; Ben- Hur, the 1959 remake is an enormous creation and the most moving of all biblical films; David Lean's somber Russian epic Doctor Zhivago comes close but its wintry romance pales in comparison to Rhett and Scarlett's fiery passion. All in all, Gone With The Wind is a movie monument, an indestructible artifact of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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5.0 / 5.0
DVD arrived quickly, and in excellent condition. Was very pleased to find this so easily at B&N.
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5.0 / 5.0
My grandmother introduced me to Gone with the Wind. She always told me "you should have seen it on the big screen like I did." She died two weeks prior to me getting this blu ray set. I had been looking everywhere for the set so we could watch it together. The viewer does get to see the movie in its true form. The rich colors, the amazing wardrobes the actors all come to life. It is an epic movie that no one should miss. I am so ever greatful to my grandmother for inviting me into Rhett and Scarletts life through first the movie then later the book.
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5.0 / 5.0
Gone With The Wind is no doubt a 5-star movie. My favorite characters of all were Melanie/Melly and Bonnie. For 1939, this movie is great in it's quality. The actors are all very well selected for their part.
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5.0 / 5.0
First of all, to anyone who thinks that Gone With The Wind is not a timeless classic, then you don't truly understand the movie. I first saw GWTW when I was 6 years old, and I've always loved it. I have watched it over 100 times and read the book more than 30 times and it's always exciting. Most people my age have never even heard of it, even after they re-released it to theatres after restoring it. They would destroy it if they remade it with today's actors and special effects. Also the reason Clark Gable didn't really try for a southern accent is because Rhett Butler spent the better part of his fictional life travelling the world and people tend to lose accents. He was older than all the other characters, remember. Ashley didn't have much of an accent but then not all southerners did or still do. Vivian Leigh did an excellent job considering that she had to lose her british accent before filming. Anyone who can't see the beauty of this movie should watch it again and then read the book a few times.
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3.0 / 5.0
I thought this included the book; it actually includes a book about the movie, not THE book!
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5.0 / 5.0
excellent movie
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5.0 / 5.0
This movie is one of the greatest movies made. The story and the actors put on a very poignant performance . The civil war was a very important time in this country history and laid the foundation for civil rights.
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5.0 / 5.0
Gone With the wind is an American classic in which a scheming Southern Bell and a Wayward Yankee carry on a tumultuous love affair during the Civil War and the rebuilding of the United States after the war.The love between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler is the man subject of the movie. The acting is superb. The cinematography, set and costume design is perfection.The theme of slavery was not fairly depicted. It does not really reflect the harshness and horror of slavery. However I am judging from a 2010 view. By today's standards I think the slavery aspect of story would be portrayed differently.
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5.0 / 5.0
I would recommend this to all Gone With The Wind fans. It is a true classic.
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5.0 / 5.0
You can't improve too much on a classic like this one. If only the south had as many soldiers as shown in the railroad depot, they'd have won the war. Good fiction, though.
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5.0 / 5.0
amazing movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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4.0 / 5.0
Best Movie of the millenium
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5.0 / 5.0
As a seventeen year old, it may be funny to love this movie but I do. This is the best movie I have seen in a long time. I recommend it to all the teens out there who are stuck watching the junk that Hollywood produces now.
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5.0 / 5.0
This is one of the best films if not the best film in movie history. It's all about Southern belle Scarlett O¿Hara, played to perfection by the gorgeous Vivien Leigh and the trials and tribulations she faces in love and life during the Civil War and Southern reconstruction. This excellent film also stars Clark Gable as Sgt. Rhett Butler, Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes, Olivia De Havilland as Melanie and Hattie McDaniel as Mammy. This film gets better with age and is able to hold the viewers' attention and keep them spellbound without letting go.
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1.0 / 5.0
I thought that the book stunk extremely bad and was a no good book i advice nobody to read the book or watch the stupid movie if i could have i would have given it a rating of negative 500 because it was very bad.
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5.0 / 5.0
This is a great movie. The only bad part is that some people will be put off by the length.
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3.0 / 5.0
This film is boring. And the color is aweful! I don't think I have ever been so bored. Maybe if you're old and just waiting to die, this flick might fill the lonely hours between the times that your rest home nurse comes by for your next morphine injection or to change your collostomy bag. This is a real snoozer. This 'classic' is a classic rip off. Save your money!
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1.0 / 5.0
I thought it was extremely terrible. that is all.
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5.0 / 5.0
I've watched this movie ever since I was 4 and I still love it all the more 12 years later! I highly recommend this movie to anyone but you really should read the book too. It's truly amazing.