Gone with the wind [videorecording] / David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's [novel], a Selznick International Picture ; screenplay by Sidney Howard ; directed by Victor Fleming.
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FilmPublisher number: 1000089173 | Warner Home Video3000027444 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese Publication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]Edition: Two-disc 70th anniversary edDescription: 2 videodiscs (233 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419878778
- 9781419878770
- At head of title: David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's
- Music, Max Steiner.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical 3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry "mealy mouthed" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at Twelve Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit of histrionics, all of which is witnessed by roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by the feisty, thoroughly self-centered Scarlett: "We're bad lots, both of us." The movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the destruction of a huge wall left over from King Kong) through the now-classic closing line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Holding its own against stiff competition (many consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical Hollywood studios), Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar). The film grossed nearly 192 million dollars, assuring that, just as he predicted, Selznick's epitaph would be "The Man Who Made Gone With the Wind." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.
Special features: Commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer.
Title from container.
Music, Max Steiner.
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland.
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food, animals and her mother dead. Later, Rhett courts Scarlett and they get married and have a daughter, Bonnie. When Bonnie dies, Rhett goes mad. Then Melanie dies. Rhett feels that Scarlett will go to Ashley to be with him. Not understanding Scarlett's intentions, Rhett walks out on Scarlett.
MPAA rating: G.
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.
These DVD discs are copy protected.
English (Dolby 5.1, Dolby mono.), dubbed French (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby mono.) or Japanese or Portuguese dialogue ; English, French, Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.