Info
Year: | 1939 |
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Original Title: | Gone With the Wind |
Length: | 238 minutes |
Genre: | Drama, Romance, War |
Studios: | Selznick International Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
Age rating: | Parental guidance |
Release Dates
United Kingdom: April 18 1940
United States: January 17 1940
Ranking
Ranking: 705 out of 15,704 movies (up 202)
Ranked #48 in list 'The best movies ever'
Ranked #25 in list 'The best romantic movies'
8.5 by 21 users
10.0 by Movie'n'co
Plot
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."