Gone with the Wind

Theatrical Release Date: 1939 12 15 (USA) / 1998 06 26 (USA - Rerelease)

UPC: 883929057436

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Adult Situations]

Summary: 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

Category: Epic

Awards: U.S. National Film Registry – Library of Congress 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Color Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Special Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Special Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Special Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Honorary and Other Awards – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Acting – National Board of Review Best Actress – New York Film Critics Circle Award – Photoplay 10 Best Films – Film Daily 10 Best Films – New York Times

Features: Commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer

Gone with the Wind

Format: DVD

Release Date: 11/17/2009

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 223 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Gone with the Wind - Part 1
1. 1 Overture [2:30]
2. 2 Credits and Foreword [4:11]
3. 3 Tarletons Spill a Secret [2:51]
4. 4 Love of the Land [5:46]
5. 5 Dressing up and Down [2:28]
6. 6 Twelve Oaks [3:48]
7. 7 Attnetion Paid and Unpaid [4:04]
8. 8 Dreams of Victory [2:48]
9. 9 Has the War Started? [3:59]
10. 10 The Proposal [3:04]
11. 11 Widow Hamilton [2:30]
12. 12 Atlanta Bazaar [4:12]
13. 13 Shocking the Confederacy [3:40]
14. 14 You Should Be Kissed [2:44]
15. 15 Sheer Waste [3:15]
16. 16 Christmas Furlough [3:24]
17. 17 Ashley's Request [3:16]
18. 18 Belle's Donation [2:58]
19. 19 Enough of Dying [3:03]
20. 20 Panic in Atlanta [5:56]
21. 21 Awaiting Invaders and a Baby [4:06]
22. 22 The Wounded [2:17]
23. 23 Prissy's Confession [1:46]
24. 24 Recruiting Rhett [4:12]
25. 25 Atlanta Burns [4:32]
26. 26 Kiss Me...Once [4:07]
27. 27 Twelve Oaks in Ruins [3:10]
28. 28 Sadness at Tara [3:04]
29. 29 Rock Bottom [3:55]
30. 30 I'll Never Be Hungry Again [2:14]
31. 31 Intermission Music [3:58]
Disc #2 -- Gone with the Wind - Part 2
1. 32 Entr'Acte [1:30]
2. 33 Sherman! Hard Labor [2:58]
3. 34 Yankee Intruder [4:49]
4. 35 War Over [4:11]
5. 36 Ashley Returns [2:04]
6. 37 Something to Live for [5:32]
7. 38 Pa's Accident [2:01]
8. 39 Ready to Wear [3:02]
9. 40 Appeal to Rhett [5:15]
10. 41 Hand in Men's Pockets [5:38]
11. 42 Businesswoman [4:35]
12. 43 Shanty Town Attack [2:48]
13. 44 Night Vigil [4:43]
14. 45 Return From the Raid [5:20]
15. 46 Melanie and Belle [3:12]
16. 47 Rhett's Proposal [:31]
17. 48 The Honeymoon [6:40]
18. 49 Bonnie Blue Butler [4:02]
19. 50 Comfort Elsewhere [3:10]
20. 51 Doting Dad [4:43]
21. 52 The Old Days [3:37]
22. 53 Our Scarlett [3:30]
23. 54 Taking Scarlett [1:50]
24. 55 Homesick [4:43]
25. 56 Scarlett's Fall [5:21]
26. 57 Bonnie's Accident [5:41]
27. 58 Chronicle of Grief [2:30]
28. 59 Melanie's Farewell [3:03]
29. 60 True Loves [3:59]
30. 61 Frankly, My Dear [2:13]
31. 62 Tomorrow Is Another Day [4:59]
32. 63 Exit Music [2:13]

Lucia Bozzola

As epic as the 1,000-plus-page Margaret Mitchell bestseller on which it was based, David O. Selznick's production of Gone With the Wind (1939) went through three directors, a well-publicized search for Scarlett O'Hara, and a then-enormous four-million-dollar budget, resulting in one of the all-time highest-grossing movies. Sparing no expense on sets and costumes, Selznick aimed to produce the ultimate Technicolor blockbuster, faithfully adapting the book's Civil War era travails of Southern belle Scarlett and her roguish match, Rhett Butler. While the film is grand in scale (and length), its cast, especially relative unknown Vivien Leigh as Scarlett and MGM king Clark Gable as Rhett, made the narrative as engrossing as the spectacular recreation of the burning of Atlanta (in which old sets were torched). Premiering first in Atlanta, Gone With the Wind delivered on the promise of the hype, breaking box-office records. Earning an unprecedented 13 Oscar nominations, Gone With the Wind won eight statuettes and two special awards, taking Best Picture in Hollywood's "miraculous" year, as well as Best Director for Victor Fleming, and Best Actress for Vivien Leigh. Best Supporting Actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American actor to win an Oscar. Perennially popular, Gone With the Wind inspired the 1994 sequel Scarlett. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Victor Fleming  Director 
Sidney Howard  Screenwriter 
David O. Selznick  Producer 
Max Steiner  Composer (Music Score) 
Clark Gable  Actor 
Vivien Leigh  Actor 
Leslie Howard  Actor 
Olivia de Havilland  Actor 
Hattie McDaniel  Actor 
Thomas Mitchell  Actor 
Barbara O'Neil  Actor 
Evelyn Keyes  Actor 
Ann Rutherford  Actor 
George Reeves  Actor 
Fred Crane  Actor 
Oscar Polk  Actor 
Butterfly McQueen  Actor 
Victor Jory  Actor 
Everett Brown  Actor 
Howard Hickman  Actor 
Alicia Rhett  Actor 
Rand Brooks  Actor 
Carroll Nye  Actor 
Laura Hope Crews  Actor 
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson  Actor 
Harry Davenport  Actor 
Jane Darwell  Actor 
Mary Anderson  Actor 
Ona Munson  Actor 
Ward Bond  Actor 
Cammie King  Actor 
Mickey Kuhn  Actor 
Paul Hurst  Actor 
Isabel Jewell  Actor 
Yakima Canutt  Actor 
Zack Williams  Actor 
Marcella Martin  Actor 
Jackie Moran  Actor 
Leona Roberts  Actor 
Alberto Morin  Actor 
Terry Shero  Actor 
William McClain  Actor 
Lee Phelps  Actor 
Philip Trent  Actor 
Irving Bacon  Actor 
Tom Tyler  Actor 
William Bakewell  Actor 
Robert Elliott  Actor 
Si Jenks  Actor 
Emerson Treacy  Actor 
Lester Dorr  Actor 
John Wray  Actor 
Trevor Bardette  Actor 
Tom Seidel  Actor 
Marjorie Reynolds  Actor 
James Bush  Actor 
Ralph Brooks  Actor 
Cliff Edwards  Actor 
Louis Jean Heydt  Actor 
Eddy Chandler  Actor 
John Arledge  Actor 
Roscoe Ates  Actor 
Eric Linden  Actor 
George Hackathorne  Actor 
Frank Coghlan, Jr.  Actor 
Guy Wilkerson  Actor 
Frank Faylen  Actor 
Tommy Kelly  Actor 
William Stack  Actor 
Ernest Whitman  Actor 
William Stelling  Actor 
George Meeker  Actor 
Wallis Clark  Actor 
Adrian Morris  Actor 
J.M. Kerrigan  Actor 
Olin Howland  Actor 
Blue Washington  Actor 
Lillian Kemble-Cooper  Actor 
Louise Carter  Actor 
Harry Strang  Actor 
Lee Murray  Actor 

Country: USA