One of the very few nearly flawless motion pictures

Rating: 10/10 (1 September 2009)

As much a period piece as this is, "Gone with the Wind" nevertheless is so good as to be nearly without parallel. In fact, of all the movies I have seen based on books I have read--and there are quite a few--this is the only one that is better than the novel. Margaret Mitchell's book is very good, but the move is without doubt stunning.
Anyone who wants to get an accurate feel for what antebellum plantation life was like in the South needs to see this movie. The depictions are often stereotyped and overdrawn--part of the charm of this epic and entirely necessary in context--but what one takes away will be as accurate a grasp as anyone could hope for in the time the movie takes to play.