CLASSIC MOVIES: GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

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Brief Movie Synopsis [courtesy of Turner Classic Movies]:

Scarlett O'Hara is in love with drippy Ashley Wilkes, and is devastated when he announces that he plans to marry her cousin Melanie. She pleads with Ashley to marry her instead, but then, on the first day of the Civil War, she meets
Rhett Butler. A man to match her strength of character and
romantic desires, Butler changes the course of her life.
"Gone With The Wind" received more than a dozen
Academy Award nominations.

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REVIEWS:

"As an example of filmmaking craft, 'Gone With The Wind' is still
astonishing. .... Some of the individual shots...still have the power
to leave us breathless, including the burning of Atlanta, the flight
to Tara and the 'street of dying men' shot, as Scarlett wanders into
the street and the camera pulls back until the whole Confederacy
seems to lie broken and bleeding as far as the eye can see. ....
'Gone With the Wind'...[is] a superb example of Hollywood's art."

-- Roger Ebert; June 21, 1998