More ham than a Danish abattoir

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 1999)

"Gone With The Wind" is one of the most overrated movies of all time. It's one of those 'emperor's new clothes' movies ("Citizen Kane" being another prime example) which has created its own myth and which it seems to have become almost blasphemous to criticise. Call me a Philistine if you like, but to call this load of old toffee the greatest movie of all time - or even one of the greatest - is just plain rubbish. It may have been okay in its day, but now it's just so dated. Clark Gable is nothing more than a kind of proto-Timothy Dalton, and the much lauded Vivienne Leigh is positively hammy all the way through. In parts she's quite nauseating. And those hideous frocks - oh dear me. Big thumbs down I'm afraid.