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Gone with the Wind Reviews

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Otis Ferguson The New Republic May 8, 2024
Gone with the Wind stands around on its own foot purely out of size and story complexity... They threw in many good things, and everything else but a towel.
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Mark Johnson Awards Daily Jun 8, 2023
The performances, set designs, costumes, Technicolor photography, and Max Steiner’s exhilarating score keep this film as bewildering and extravagant a film today as it ever was.
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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Mar 18, 2022 4/4
It remains the most seen film in cinema history, not only because Selznick produced a monumental motion picture of immaculate quality, but because he knew how to sell it as an event.
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W. Ward Marsh Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 5, 2022
The entire cast is about as flawless as I have ever seen in one picture.
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Alex Maidy JoBlo's Movie Network May 4, 2021
It is a film so misguided and ignorant that odds are that if you have seen it, you likely only remember one or two iconic scenes and have nary a recollection of the rest. Gone With The Wind is quite literally not worth giving a damn.
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Tom Meek Cambridge Day Aug 7, 2020 3/4
One of the first technicolor films made by Hollywood, the panning shot of injured and dead soldiers littering a street remains unforgettable...
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Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Aug 7, 2020 3/4
One of the first technicolor films made by Hollywood, the panning shot of injured and dead soldiers littering a street remains unforgettable...
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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Jul 27, 2020 10/10
No other movie has had quite the impact, the influence, or the epic feel (perhaps as only a nearly four-hour-long production could create) of this unmistakable masterpiece.
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Otis Stuart OutWeek May 20, 2020
True to the book, the film of Gone With The Wind is held together by its heroine.
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Matt Neal ABC Radio (Australia) May 12, 2020 5/5
"Hey kids, wanna watch a four-hour-long romantic melodrama, told from the sympathetic perspective of the racist slave owners who lost the Civil War?"
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Aurelio Pego Cine-Mundial Apr 3, 2020
Victor Fleming's direction has abundant artistic successes. [Full review in Spanish]
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Jay Carmody Washington Star Feb 6, 2020
In casting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, Clark Gable as RhettButler, Olivia De Havilland as Melanie and Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes, [David O. Selznick] brought the major characters to life just as they existed in the book.
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Nelson Burns (Te Pana) Courier Mail (Australia) Feb 5, 2020
Miss Mitchell used 475,000 words to tell her story. Three hours 45 minutes is not a second too long in which to recount it in the film transcription.
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SMH Staff Sydney Morning Herald Feb 5, 2020
Clark Gable sends a refreshing blast of cynicism through a narrative which otherwise would have been over-sweet.
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Eugene H. Huffman California Eagle Sep 30, 2019
This danger-fraught material should be left to inspired writers... Mediocre reactionary writers shouldn't play around with so much dynamite for the mere sake of giving the sensation-loving masses a thrill.
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Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy) Esquire Magazine Sep 20, 2019
The only help we can give [a future researcher] is to explain that the burning question of our day was not a question of the value of this work as a piece of historic documentation: our public was concerned chiefly with the techniques of histrionic art.
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Dwight MacDonald Esquire Magazine Jul 30, 2019
It's corny and blowsy and phony, the slide trombone in the cinematic orchestra, and yet it is not boring.
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Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net Apr 4, 2019 B
I enjoy watching it but I acknowledge all those flaws.
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune Jan 29, 2019 4/4
"Gone With the Wind" offers the kind of big, rich, opulent experience the movies are in a unique position to offer but seldom do.
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Isabel Quigly The Spectator Jan 29, 2019
For anyone older who wants a reminiscent trip into the early war years, and how it felt to look at someone else's high-coloured war when you had no idea what your own was bringing, again this is it.
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