Rating: 
Summary: Simply A Gem....Perhaps Even THE Gem!!!!!
Review: What can one say of GWTW that has not been said before? It IS the greatest film of all time, the best epic, the best example of supreme storytelling through film.It has the rare gift that makes it in a league all its own...the Crown Jewel of the Hollywood legend. The eternal romance of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) is still capable of drawing the crowds, even though today's somewhat jaded fare is doing its fair share of brainwashing. The supporting players are all fine too, they are all three-dimensional characterisations that all tell an individual story, like Belle Watling (Ona Munson), India Wilkes (Alicia Rhett), Aunt Pittypatt (Laura Hope Crews) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen). The secondary (and much more valid) romance of Melanie Hamilton (Olivia DeHavilland) and Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) is touching and splendid in its sentimentality and fine in its drama. Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) is still wonderfully entertaining, especially in the scene the preceeds the Twelve Oaks party, where she is lacing Scarlett and they argue over 'that' dress. The burning of Atlanta is still a sight to behold, with the flames rich in scarlet, orange and yellow hues. The film is a perfect vision of Margaret Mitchell's lengthy tome of a civilisation no more....of a time GONE WITH THE WIND.
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