The original

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2012)

Gone with the wind was made in 1939, the first full color epic at about four hours in length. Hollywood had begun to take over the American landscape and gwtw has remained the standard for over 70 years, quite an accomplishment.
Clarke Gable was already a big star at the time and his portrayal of Rhett Butler is dead on as is the temperamental Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, a spoiled, petulant southern girl at Tara, a monumental Civil War plantation in Atlanta. As the bloody confrontation grows more and more ominous for the rebels, a love story unfolds between Rhett and Scarlett.
Slavery is also one of the themes addressed, and, in fact Hattie McDaniel was the first black actress to win an Academy Award for her role as Hattie, Scarlett's housemaid. Gwtw will always be a vital part of historical American cinema.