Gone with the Wind

"The greatest romance of all time!"

1939 3h 58m EN

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Synopsis

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The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

“The greatest romance of all time!”

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Cast

Vivien Leigh
Scarlett O'Hara
Clark Gable
Rhett Butler
Olivia de Havilland
Melanie Hamilton
Leslie Howard
Ashley Wilkes
Hattie McDaniel
Mammy
Thomas Mitchell
Gerald O'Hara
Barbara O'Neil
Ellen O'Hara
Evelyn Keyes
Suellen O'Hara

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Victor Fleming
Writers: Sidney Howard, David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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At 238 minutes, this is a three-hour-plus commitment — longer than 95% of films ever made.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $4.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $402M — a 100.6× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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87 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Victor Fleming, shot by Ernest Haller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Max Steiner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable and Olivia de Havilland carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The greatest romance of all time!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Victor Fleming directs. Ernest Haller behind the camera. Max Steiner scores. A long sit — settle in. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1At 238 minutes, this is a three-hour-plus commitment — longer than 95% of films ever made.
2Shot for just $4.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $402M — a 100.6× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
487 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
5Directed by Victor Fleming, shot by Ernest Haller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Max Steiner. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable and Olivia de Havilland carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The greatest romance of all time!".
9IMDB entry: tt0031381 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 25 themes, including "civil war", "based on novel or book", "marriage crisis", "loss of loved one".
11Released under 61 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ernest Haller
Original score: Max Steiner
Production design: William Cameron Menzies
Costume design: Walter Plunkett
Runtime: 238 min · 3h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $4,000,000
Box office: $402,352,579
Return: 10059% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Gone with the Wind (1939)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Director
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Picture

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patrickios2018-12-12
★ 9/10
I cannot fully explain all aspects of the movie easily and clearly in a text smaller than a large volume, but yet I will try to compress it decently here. First and foremost, the movie for me is like a spectacle which could go on with the same cast for 100 hours and still be interesting and captivating. I have always wished it had been a series with this cast instead of a movie. Futile wishes! The casting, to begin with, is very well matched to the book's spirit if not the physical descriptions. Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel. I stop here and will edit it bit by bit to complete it in a few days. It is too large to finish in one writing.
CinemaSerf2026-06-19
★ 7/10
If there wasn't a word for melodrama before this film, there certainly was after it. It's a spectacular soap opera that allows some of the more memorable dialogue from English language cinema to merge with performances from a few of it's most accomplished character actors. "Scarlett" (Vivien Leigh) is the spoilt little rich gal living the life of a millionairess on her daddy's plantation and swooning over the dashing "Ashley" (Leslie Howard). Her path would seem to be set out before her, and with the Confederacy convinced that the looming Civil War would prove to be little more than a walk in the park for the gentlemen of the South, she is content. Meantime, the slightly rakish "Butler" (Clark Gable) is warning these complacent folks that with the industrial and military might predominantly in the North, they are about to get quite a surprise - and, of course, that proves red rag to a bull for a "Scarlett" who won't even contemplate any defeat. That proves to be the beginning of their love/hate relationship and swifly thereafter she faces another first - upsetting her idealic scenario as "Ashley" goes off to war. Then cousin "Melanie" (Olivia de Havilland) and her brother "Charles" (Rand Brooks) beging to further cloud things; the war doesn't go their way and she is soon penniless, living on her wits and vowing that she will never be poor again. The only way she can keep the family home "Tara" and pay the punitive taxes imposed after the war is to marry, but somehow you just know that isn't going to work out and that, in reality, there really is only one man she needs to marry. One man who wants to marry her. Talk about toxic, though. Gable plays his roguish and debonaire "Butler" to perfection. A glint in his eye and a gun in his pocket (as Mae West might have said). Leigh, likewise, is perfect for the role of the flighty but nonetheless shrewd and manipulative woman and the whole scenario shines amidst a hue of softly-focussed photography and a sumptuousness that isn't all ball gowns and pearls, but also about the flaws of human nature. There are scene-stealing supporting characters galore in here, not least Thomas Mitchell as her kindly father and Hattie McDaniel whose effort as the long-suffering maid-cum-confidante "Mammy" is as personable as any on display - especially when hard times visit "Tara". In many ways this still resonates today, illustrating quite clearly the fickleness of people; that you can't help where love takes you and that, of course, being wealthy doesn't make a marriage or a person any the happier. Set when and where it is, it's also a salutary reminder of the inhumanity visited on those slaves whose lives involved cotton and nothing else; people with no rights but who managed to maintain a sense of dignity and pride that often showed up those of their supposed "betters". It's of it's time, so there's no point in watching it to be offended by the offences it commits; that it's society condoned, and that ultimately drew this nation into a war that started it onto a long road. It's a grand piece of cinema that shows Hollywood in it's full pomp, littered with nuanced characters and immersed in a rousing score that will all help ensure that even at almost four hours long, this will be a film always to be reckoned with.