Gone With the Wind: Critic Reviews

To see Gone With the Wind on a big screen again is to weep for the fearlessness with which Hollywood once believed the sublime was possible.

'It' has arrived at last, and we cannot get over the shock of not being disappointed; we had almost been looking forward to that.

It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.

If you loved 'Scarlett,' you'll love its prequel!

A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.

One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.

They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

But once the story kicks in and Leigh and Gable slip into their characters, it's difficult not to be caught up in what is still one of the most vivid depictions of civil war (and its destructive aftermath) ever committed to film.

Everything old is new again with this re-release of Gone With the Wind, and it reminds us that the Golden Age of Hollywood was a beautiful time.

Even though the habits of movie- goers have changed over the years, it's easy to see why this film provoked such an outpouring of praise and adulation during its initial release, and why its stature has grown with the passage of decades.

The film that perhaps defines Hollywood.

The cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years.

The epic film that to this day stands as the benchmark against which all other epics are judged.

Gone with the Wind is still dated, but it's a dynamite kind of antiquity.

Coordinating six filming units at once and presiding over 50-hour editing sessions, [Selznick] subsisted on a regular diet of thyroid extract, Benzedrine, and B-12 shots.

Grand old Hollywood at its most magnificent and melodramatic. Say what you like about the soapy characterisation and plotting, the spectacle flattens all in its wake.

A lost Hollywood art: the epic melodrama.

Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.

Despite the star power of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Wind has lost some of its bluster, yet it survives as a glorious Technicolored window into America's dusty, bygone past.

What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?

Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom

Well, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.

It's so full of iconic moments of plotting and dialog that a feature film could be edited just out of the most quotable moments.

...producer David O. Selznick's crowning achievement and a film that stands up as one of the screen's finest classics.

One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.