Every bit the classic

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2017)

Georgia, early-1860s. Scarlett O'Hara's life is one of parties and romantic machinations. She lives on her family's plantation Tara and the love of her life, Ashley Wilkes, has just announced his engagement to Melanie Hamilton. However, she soon is married to Charles, Melanie's younger brother, though she doesn't love him. Then the Civil War intervenes, and once the South starts losing, survival becomes the priority. All this time, one man keeps popping back into Scarlett's life, the dashing Rhett Butler.
Every bit the classic and epic it is made out to be. Epic in its span of events, epic in its running time, epic in its scale, epic in production. Interesting, engaging story that is part romance, part war drama, part triumph of the will drama, all with a few good themes thrown in.
Has given cinema some of its most enduring scenes and lines.
Won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940. Won 7 other Oscars too including Best Director for Victor Fleming, Best Actress for Vivien Leigh and Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first African- American to win an Oscar (also the first to be nominated).