"I'm afraid now - - I'm afraid of dying . . . "

Rating: 3/10 (6 November 2013)

" . . . and going to Hell." So says Katie Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy soon-to-tack-on Butler, and well she should be. After gunning down one of Abe Lincoln's Black-slave-liberators in his face and using her own visage NOT to launch 1,000 ships (A La Helen of Troy) but rather the Ku Klux Klan, Ms. O'Hara embodies everything Satanic. Starting with the opening title quote from Margaret Mitchell's apartheid source material to Scarlett's constant abuse of every African American who comes within shouting or beating range of her, this movie is the American equivalent to Germany's 1930s propaganda masterpiece, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. Tragically, THE WIZARD OF OZ--jobbed out by WIND for 1939's "Best Picture" Oscar--probably would have been an even better movie if WIND producer David O. Selznick had not kidnapped Oz director Victor Fleming from the Emerald City and literally driven him into a mental institution by foisting upon him the impossible task of attempting to bring coherence to this misogynistic marathon melodrama. The best way to experience WIND is simply by listening to a CD of composer Max Steiner's outstanding score.