The most beautiful love-story ever written

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2006)

Gone With the Wind is by far the best all-round movie ever made (and especially of its time). The cast is fantastic, with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable portraying one of the most passionate and complex love story of all time. Head-strong, spoilt, beautiful Scarlett O'Hara is the belle of the county. With more beaux than anyone she is envied by all girls, admired by all men. But the only young man of her friends who is not her beau is the one she wants. Ashley Wilkes is to marry his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and Scarlett is determined that this should not occur. Meanwhile, Rhett Butler, the rich, debonair Scallawag, is determined to have Scarlett, by any means possible. His suave mockery at firsts irritates Scarlett, but his charm slowly wins her over. The American civil war throws Scarlett's world into disarray, dramatically changing her life, and everything she ever knew is now challenged. Gone With the Wind tells Scarlett's story, of her three marriages, her struggles for money, food and security, her love for Ashley and her dislike for his wife, the kind-hearted, gentle Melanie. But most of all it tells the story of Scarlett and Rhett, a story of friendship, mockery, pain, sorrow, happiness and, ultimately, of love.