Gone With the Wind overview

Gone With the Wind

Synopsis:

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).


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Victor Fleming
  • Studio: Selznick International Pictures
  • Year: 1939
  • Run Time: 222 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: G
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Romance, Epic
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 1939 12 15 (USA), 1998 06 26 (USA - Rerelease)