It is a must-have for fans of Gone With The Wind and Old Hollywood and ideal for those interested in films. Her attraction comes in fits and spurts, and the more enthralled she becomes, the more quickly Rhett's interest seems to fade. SD): Just as the collectors' edition of The Wizard of Oz featured a related TV movie, so too does Gone with the Wind. I have enjoyed this film for the pure story of its but it did spur me on to read American history of that time.

The American public took it for granted that Clark Gable would star as Rhett Butler, and they were wholly correct: he does a marvelous job in the part. Some of the dated racial stereotypes are a little cringeworthy, and the insistence that cotton is and will forever be the backbone of the South seems kind of myopic even in 1939. Though Gone with the Wind is a four disc set, the soundtrack CD sampler is packaged apart from the rest of the discs.

This is a film that continues to be so wholly captivating that its four hour runtime seems perhaps half that, and its popularity and influence cannot be overstated. Selznick's startlingly ambitious vision for Gone with the Wind, and the skill, craftsmanship, and refusal to settle for second-best remain breathtaking seventy years later.

And I sure did laugh at how so many characters die, right on time, just when the plot needed them to, just as they became an obstacle to something else happening. I'm absolutely not complaining about any lack of extras; this disc alone features nine hours of material, and the audio commentary and the mammoth When the Lion Roars documentary combine to add another ten hours to that. The documentary draws from newly-conducted -- as of 1992, at least -- interviews as well as a massive assortment of archival footage, and, of course, excerpts from the many dozens of films highlighted throughout have been included as well. It's certainly true that the black characters throughout Gone with the Wind settle somewhat into cliché, and the institution of slavery is never portrayed as a negative. This is undoubtedly a five-star effort, yet it just seems as if a wider net than this could've been cast, and its more limited scope leaves Gone with the Wind somewhat overshadowed by the exceptionally diverse extras on The Wizard of Oz.

From a dramatic sense, though, this still works in Gone with the Wind -- Uncle Peter, Big Sam, Prissy, and Mammy are treated more as part of the family -- and I can still appreciate the film while accepting the sometimes unfortunate context of its era.

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Even though his comments had clearly been prepared in advance, Behlmar is personable enough that this commentary never feels as if he's simply reading pages of notes in front of him verbatim. Teenaged Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) doesn't have a care in the world, and she can afford not to; her father (Thomas Mitchell) is an Irish immigrant with a profound love for the land, and he's parlayed that passion into a fortune. Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.