On the eve of the Civil War, beautiful Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) is devastated when she learns that the man she loves plans to marry her cousin. At a barbeque the next day, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), a roguish man who matches Scarlett both in strength and character. Their meeting begins an epic love story that changes the course of Scarlett's life, taking her from the luxury and innocence of her youth to the poverty and destruction of a bloody war.
Directed by
Victor Fleming; George Cukor (uncredited); Sam Wood (uncredited).
Written by
Margaret Mitchell (novel); Sidney Howard (screenplay); Oliver H.P. Garrett (contributing writer) (uncredited); Ben Hecht (contributing writer) (uncredited); Jo Swerling (contributing writer) (uncredited).
Starring
Thomas Mitchell (Gerald O'Hara); Barbara O'Neil (Ellen O'Hara - His Wife (as Barbara O'Neill)); Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara - Their Daughter); Evelyn Keyes (Suellen O'Hara - Their Daughter); Ann Rutherford (Carreen O'Hara - Their Daughter); George Reeves (Brent Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau); Fred Crane (Stuart Tarleton - Scarlett's Beau); Hattie McDaniel (Mammy - O'Hara House Servant); Oscar Polk (Pork - O'Hara House Servant); Butterfly McQueen (Prissy - O'Hara House Servant); Victor Jory (Jonas Wilkerson - O'Hara Field Overseer); Everett Brown (Big Sam - O'Hara Field Foreman); Howard C. Hickman (John Wilkes (as Howard Hickman)); Alicia Rhett (India Wilkes - His Daughter); Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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Magnificant
Romano (Spain)
Opinion: Recommended
This is Hollywod at its most melodramatic and magnificent. People can say what they like but the characterization and plotting flattens all in its wake. Expensive for its time, it has every dollar evident on the screen.
