The top and most unforgetable movie I've ever seen. Familiarity does not make it any less attractive. I've seen it over a dozen times The music Steiner wrote fits exactly.!!!

I have studied and loved and admired this intriguing novel and its movie counterpart for three-fourths of my adult life. The grandeur of the film is astoundingly announced with the main title, "Tara's Theme," which never fails to make me stop dead in my tracks if I hear it in a department store or elevator. I sat up late as a teenager reading the book, fascinated with the characters and the story Margaret Mitchell had written with such clarity. I never knew then that when it was first published, Margaret Mitchell got letters from children complaining that their grandparents would not let them quit reading the book until they found out if Scarlett made it home to Tara! "I'll think about it tomorrow!" has become my day-to-day philosophy....

That Max Steiner only received three Oscars for his over 300 film scores (and did not win for this, his greatest) is one of the shames of the industry.

I truly believe this to be the most emotionally enveloping theme/score of all time. Always gets me.

The best movie of all time. I love Gone With The Wind. I was 15 when I first saw it at the pictures in Malvern. I loved everything about it. Who could forget Mammy sticking her head out of the upstairs window yelling out "Come on in Miss Scarlet before you catch your death of dampness" She was such a presence. I won't think about that now, I'll think about that tomorrow. The musical score is so beautiful, sad, serene, wistful, joyous and above all, the most well loved of all movie scores. The colours, the clothing, passions and temperaments. Sadly, there are no more Vivien Leighs and no more Clark Gables. With his sardonic look and raised eyebrow, the "Frankly my dear, I don't gives damn!" will go down in history as the most quotable quote.

The music also plays a big part of the movies... makes it come alive!

00:23 - Professor Girafales ? - Dona Florinda ! - Que milagre o senhor por aqui. - Eu vim lhe trazer esse humilde presente. - Oh obrigada, gostaria de entrar para tomar uma xícara de café ? - Não seria muito incomodo ? - Ai de maneira nenhuma, queira entrar por favor. - Depois da senhora...

The movie does not fail in the end! In fact, its ending is still one of the most famous endings on film; this is not because it is crappy, but rather because it is well-done and memorable. This movie is a classic for a reason, not because it is over-rated! Gone With The Wind is a compelling character study of epic proportions, and while it has minute flaws I still cannot see any that are even half as big as the ones you think are there. Oh well, to each his own opinion! :)

Yes, Steiner is a great film composer! Thanks for commenting!

My Favorite movie!!!!!!! The most beautiful music !!!!!!

What a wonderful piece of incredible music... Max Steiner had such a gift...dr. kristin vermillion

For some reason this is in the credits of Corpse Bride and I'm not sure why, I don't recall the song being played.

It is Max Steiner's music...there is a great book about the filming in the library... awesome... I had the privilege of meeting 1 of Vivien's stand-ins many years ago... wonderful visit...

the music is so evocative it sweeps you back to tara

Très beau souvenir de l'âge d'or du cinéma, les années trente quarante, cinquante, et soixante. Un très beau succès avec de magnifiques décors,, de prestigieux acteurs, et une très belle musique. Un film qui, même s'il véhicule une vision douce de l'esclavage, le cinéma n'a jamais représenté la réalité de plus, pour le roman dont il est issu, c'était l'époque de la ségrégation raciale aux états unis et c'est bien pour cela qu'il y a eu la guerre de secession.

La película favorita de mis padres la vi siendo muy pequeña !!! Y una música maravillosa !!!😍

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia listening to this music. It was the theme music for a local radio station, WSB. Tara was a composite of memories of the author. There a "Tara" Clayton County, Georgia, but it was built to capitalize on the book.

I used to play this song on the piano when I was younger. Very beautiful. Thank you for contributing this. ----Ellen

@oldmoviemusic Thanks for posting this music. Every time I see GWTW I realize that what proceeded it in the 1920's and 1930's almost sinks into irrelevency. 1939, a stupefying year in the movie business, and this picture was and still is the best of all.

I simply LOVE this music

without doubts the best music video of all time

Beautiful music score for this classical motion picture!

Sublime. Excelsa musica

The only movie ever to make me cry and I'm supposed to be a big butch man

I have never seen _Gone with the Wind,_ but this piece was used in _Corpse Bride._ “You’ve been dead for fifteen years!” “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Both Titanic AND Gone With The Wind had their glorious/ soap opera sides. That does not diminish either movie. I grew up in a family that loved Gone With The Wind, and so, naturally, I gravitate toward Rhett and Scarlett. Not dissing Titanic at all. In its own way, it's a classic, too!

This film is amazing! The soundtrack is brilliant!I love the customs, the atmosphere, the actors, the plot. Scarlet is so beautiful .However, it is said that this movie is ratsistic and I agree partly with this. But we have to remember that Mamy , Scarlet's baby siter won an Oscar for this role and she was black .More specifically she was the first black actor who won an Oscar. In addition some people think that it is a very big movie . I think is great and for this reason the duration is not a problem .Is not just a good classic movie is an epic movie

FYI - the credited director for this film is Victor Flemming. Cukor was the original director but due to disputes over the script with Selznick, he left and Flemming came on board to finish the picture.

@oldmoviemusic I agree. Although, in the book Scarlett is a total anti-heroine, and she's completely aware that she does not feel identified with the "southern belle" image at all. She knows all the way that her "social behaviour" is just a pose. Margaret Mitchell really depictured one of the most complex characters I've ever read. A great novel, a great movie.

@basilhenriques Yes, I realise that there is no person in the film of the name Tara (although Tara the plantation is most certainly a character). However, over time the title has adopted the extra possessive s. I like it this way, and I'm sorry, but I posted the video. Thank you for your comment though.

In 1939, in just a few months, there were released some of the greatest movies ever: Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, Of Mice and Men, and of course: Gone With the Wind. Really amazing when you think about it. Could a movie like "Gone With the Wind" be made today? When you consider it, it was a HUGE risk back in 1939. Hollywood just doesn't have the creativity and DARING to do anything worthwhile today. Today's movies are all deriviative and uninspired.

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There were at least two directors involved with the film before Victor Fleming completed it, 'pookerville' (it was THAT much of a turbulent production for everyone concerned): George Cukor and Sam Wood directed earlier portions of the picture before Fleming was chosen {he was a close friend of Clark Gable's}.

I must have seen it about five times ,read the book three times ,pt

You sound like my Grandad. :') Yes, those words sound like him. I actually made a comparisson with Titanic and GWTW back in college. And even though both are great, and Titanic is my favorite, GWTW Trumps Titanic any day.

I really like Titanic, and it was my favorite movie at one time too, but the film is to me soap-opera-ish because of the love story and the lack of complexity within it. This isn't an insult, I love Jack & Rose, but if you look at how their relationships unfolds, with the class disapproval, the mean fiancee, it all has a soap opera feel to it in some ways. That doesn't have to be a bad thing - part of Titanic's charm is that is does it very, very well! Hopefully that clarified what I meant! :)

I would also like to add, that in 1939, Wuthering Heights was released and that is another fantastic film!!!!!! the acting is superb!!!!! However it is always overlooked and never gets mentioned with the greats, which is such a shame!!!!!! However Gone with the Wind is in a class of its own.

Love this score. Absolutely fantastic. This is, however, the Boston Pops Orchestra. Doesn't matter to me though. I love the way Steiner composed this theme.

This recording is not from the original soundtrack. It has been re-orchestrated, with a different tempo.

I agree on the first three things, but I would have to say that the script is pretty good as well! It might not be the best thing about the movie, but I wouldn't compare it to a soap opera!

Steiner scored some of the great classics; he also did "Casablanca." GWTW had a great score, cinematic art at its best. Historically it was kind of lacking, but this is one film where I give it a pass.

"All About Eve" is a terrific film, and not only because of its dialogue. "Gone With the Wind" isnt a bad film because it has lousy dialogue, but because it has a lousy scenario that reeks of a déclassé antebellum "All My Children". The situations and character entanglements are straight out of Soap Opera 101, and while Clark Gable gave a terrific performance, I could never understand what he saw in Scarlett. Hes Clark Gable, after all! He can have any woman he wants!

Ditto, Mr. Barton.

I've seen most of Scarlett and Rhett's clothes. I read the book.

I think it's unfair to write Titanic off as soap-operatic. Titanic is my favorite movie, and it has encouraged me to watch GWTW. Of course, I'm not suggesting that Titanic is better or that GWTW is soap-operatic.

La música es tan bonita,como la Bellísima Vivien Leigh.

No, I’m talking about the novels themselves, not their adaptations. As much as I’m not a fan of “Gone”, it sure beats the shit outta “Titanic”. Disney was more of a great businessman than a great artist. The bulk of his films were mediocre, at best, a legacy that his company’s kept up to this day,

Personally i don't give a damn , I'll think about it to morrow, after all to morrow is another day. Sheer poetry

It's directed by Victor Fleming.

Hey, George Cukor didn't direct Gone With The Wind; it was Victor Fleming!

My understanding is that the movie had two directors. One replace the other. I can't remember if Fleming was the first or the replacement.

The book is dumbed-down Charlotte and Emily Brontë. I acknowledged the production values in previous posts, but then I can just re-watch "Lawrence of Arabia", which also has high production values, yet also has an intelligent, literate script. It also feels alot shorter, despite only being 5 minutes shorter in actuality.

Great music, great cinematography, excellent performances, and a script suitable for a fifth-rate soap opera.

- PROFESSOR GIRAFALES - DONA FLORINDA - QUE MILAGRE O SENHOR POR AQUI - VIM LHE TRAZER ESTE HUMILDE PRESENTE - NAO GOSTARIA DE ENTRAR PARA TOMAR UMA XICARA DE CAFE?

The Three Muskateers, 1954 I believe. Hey, Walt Disney made some Great classics. Not as good as GWTW, or Titanic, but still, Great Classics.

Opinions are like a holes . everything about the movie and its timing is great !!!!

Titanic is most certainly a cinematic soap opera, however GWTW is not at all! I just watched it on the big scrreen for it 70th anniversary release and I was struck by how complex a movie it is. The character of Scarlett represents the idea of the South, her continuous 'love' for Ashley is her clinging to the past, and the whole movie is very complex. Indeed, it is not a soap opera at all.

@LLJtbone It’s in the Mario Puzo novel. Coppola, being the great filmmaker that he was, was wise enough to remove such lurid and pointless material. In other words, a great filmmaker can occasionally improve on a bad novel. It’s just that David O. Selznick wasn’t half the filmmaker that Francis Ford Coppola was.

@zooeyhall Elizabeth [Ghost-Story, A] remains on-hold; 10yo child-labourers tragically-killed Christmas Eve 1843 walking-home from 'party'. Becoming mortal upon meeting 21st-century descendant they get a second-chance. Photographic-memory wasted in the 19th-century Elizabeth absorbs knowledge like-a-sponge. Returning-home with raft-of-skills Elizabeth shares her-experiences; her-boss Henry J Fate 'apparently-knows' 21st-century music. No-violence, no car-chases, no-porn... Wonderful.

I wonder...can you still stand on the southern . . .California spot of TARA?

@spot5 Oh really? Then name me ONE novel that has great cinematography, a great film score, and great acting.

Allthough the movie has certain hokey elements to it (at least by today's standard's), and that its depiction of African-Americans is excrutiatingly stereotyped; nonetheless the movie does have some remarkable scenes. And, of course, Max Steiner's magnificent theme.

today people brag about pictures making billions of dollars and call it the highest grossing film. That may be true. However, for box office receipts, don’t forget this movie came out when a movie was around $0.10. I read $390 million. Simple math (divide that by $0.10) get you $3.9 to the 9th power. That is a lot of zeros of people who saw this movie.

Thlanks.

@HenryConway007 Ms Mitchell won a Pulitzer Price for the "dumbed-down" Brontë. Just saying...

A música de Professor Girafales e dona Florinda.

@FabianaFortyFive45 Popular-vote; Jimmie Fiddler 1937-broadcast gave Betty Davis, Catherine Hepburn, Miriam Hopkins, Margaret Sullivan, Joan Crawford & Barbara Stanwyck; 121 in-all, 32 made screen-tests. Clark Gable the publics-choice for Rhett. Is there a 21st-century Sidney Howard out-there to write a 'treatment', William Cameron Menzies to-produce storyboard, Jock Whitney to find 'investors' for a brand-new 'family-movie'. I have most-of the-movie online & in-my-head.

@Tanathos474 Invalided following horse-riding accident Margaret Mitchell started-writing GWTW 1926. Pansy O' Hara changed through publisher McMillan; can you see contender Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Clara Bow... as Scarlett? Katherine Brown [Eastern Story Editor] appealed to [DOS business-partner] Jock Whitney who paid the US$50,000 for-the-book written-by-an-author nobody had heard-of. KB secured movie-rights July 6 1936; George Cukor first-director.

@betsydog “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was also highly anticipated, but that’s hardly a great work of literature. The novel “Gone With the Wind” is dumbed down Brontë. The film is probably better, because it has great cinematography, a great film score, and some excellent acting- stuff that novels are incapable of having.

You must not be a fan of the book then! Sure, it may have its melodramatic elements, but I think the overall production comes past that to bring out an excellent movie. Perhaps we can agree to disagree? :) And indeed, All About Eve is great for MANY reasons.

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How the **** is this related to Boys Over Flowers, a Korean drama?!

@HenryConway..."something novels are incapable of having." What an absolutely ridiculous statement for many, many reasons that I just don't have room here to elaborate on. So I'll just settle for highlighting the sheer foolishness of that statement.

Un très beau film, mais qui doit beaucoup à son indicatif musical.

professor girafales! dona florinda!

"Autant En Emporte Le Vent" n'est pas une Histoire d'amour entre Scarlett et Reth. (L'affiche est trompeuse car dans le film il n'y a aucune scène de baiser passionné). Pour résumer, Reth aime Scarlett, Scarlett aime Ashley, Ashley aime Melanie.

VHS Making Of A Legend sadly-worn; recommend DVD should LoveFilm add-to-catalog [it's on imdb dot com].

dont you mean directed by victor fleming and george cukor did some of the directing but quit

This is not Max Steiner. This is a re-make.

I struggle to watch this movie without wanting their slaves to kill them

@chislehurstbat Pulitzer Prizes are damned near meaningless, just like Academy Awards.

The film's too girly for my taste but the music is magnificent. :)

@LLJtbone The film’s problem is that the source material bogs it down. The novel isn’t even as good as a typical episode of “All My Children” and the film does little to rise above it. Sometimes, a great film can come from a crappy novel-think “The Godfather”, but that’s because Francis Ford Coppola smartly removed some of the novel’s silliness-such as the girl with the deformed pussy.

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@Joyfer600 ahuauhuah boa

The script is the reason the movie fails in the end. It certainly is a fifth-rate soap opera especially in the 2nd half. The 4-hour running time doesnt help much either. Simply painting gold over something doesnt increase its value. "Gone With the Wind" is painted gold, with great production values, but still a lousy film, although not a terrible one.

nowadays the world was ruined by some shit things. Many Good Stuff were gone with the wind

Very efusive music in comparison of the most of pop music from 1939.

What rubbish. As if soap operas cannot be complex themselves. GWTW was total soap.