A funny soap

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 1998)

The people who made this film realized that the soap suds could easily plunge off the screen and drown the audience. So, wisely, they played many of the scenes for comedy to counteract the soap. Consider the scene in the library in which the very melodramatic encounter between Ashley and Scarlet is undercut quickly by Rhett's comments and actions after Ashley leaves.
The study of Scarlet is an interesting psychological portrait of obsession - - nothing comes close except SUNSET BLVD.
The newly restored version gives us an amazingly clear, crisp color image with sharp audio -- I understood some of the lines for the first time.