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Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $84.99
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Sales Rank: 1725
Format: Color, Full Screen, Dubbed, Subtitled
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 158 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 13.2 x 8.6 x 3.4
MPN: 883929039739
UPC: 883929039739
EAN: 0883929039739
ASIN: B0013N7FZ6
Release Date: November 17, 2009
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Product Description
Follows the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara set against the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction.
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David O. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic, the second is ramshackle and arbitrary. But there's no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction, color, sound, cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible. Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic, Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely, Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic. As for Clark Gable: we're talking one of the most vital, masculine performances ever committed to film. --Tom KeoghAlso on the disc
The Ultimate Collector's Edition of Gone with the Wind is beautifully restored for Blu-ray, showing off how good a movie can look even many decades after its release. The second Blu-ray disc has a wide variety of bonus material. New for the Ultimate Collector's Edition are two 2009 documentaries: 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year is narrated by Kenneth Branagh and summarizes the famous films that debuted that year, including Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; "Gone with the Wind: The Legend Lives On" is a 33-minute study of the legacy of the movie, with interviews of film critics, Ted Turner, former Georgia Senator Max Cleeland, and surviving cast member Anne Rutherford (Careen O'Hara). Also new for the UCE is Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War, a 1980 television movie that dramatizes the casting of Gone with the Wind, starring Tony Curtis, William H. Macy, Sharon Gless, Morgan Brittany, and others. Much of the rest was on the 2004 four-disc edition, including the commentary track by Rudy Behlmer and documentaries on Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, other actors, and the filming and restoration of the movie. The third disc is a double-sided standard DVD of the documentary MGM: The Lion Roars, and the UCE comes in an oversize box with a beautiful photo book of stills and theatrical posters, reproductions of studio correspondence and a publicity booklet, a soundtrack CD sampler, and art cards. --David Horiuchi
Stills from Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) (click for larger image)
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 Technical Consideration for "Bewildered in Iowa" November 30, 2004
D. Paul Dalton (Dallas, TX USA)
140 out of 158 found this review helpful
I do hope you'll return and revise your rating to a '5' once you digest this information:
Gone With the Wind was never released in a Widescreen version on DVD because it was never released in a Widescreen version on film. In fact, when it was released (1939), there were NO "Widescreen" movies at all -- becaues no one had yet thought about formatting movies in that way.
Through the 1940s and into the 1950s, essentially ALL movies were in the 3:4 format that we now consider to be "regular". My understanding is that those proportions originally were adopted by the film industry to roughly correspond with the proportions of viewable area for the "live" theaters extant when the film industry started. Similarly, when television arrived in the late 40s/early 50s, its screen format was determined by copying the 3:4 screen proportions of films made up to that time. By the mid-1950s, the film industry became concerned about losing its audience to TV, so various WIDESCREEN formats (CinemaScope was one; I think there was another called VistaVision; I can't remember the others offhand) were conceived by the film industry in the 1950s as a way in which the film industry could distinguish its film products from what could efficiently be shown on television screens. This was the film industry's attempt to keep audiences coming to theaters to see their movies, rather than just waiting to see movie productions on home televisions; by coming to the theater, the audience could experience something different that what television could offer.
Other "ideas" in this effort against TV included attempts to interest audiences in 3D films, as well as enhancing film audio, both by greatly improving sound range and fidelity and later by adding stereo, at a time when TVs had only a single, inexpensive speaker that didn't sound all that "hot." In fact, the creation/addition of 5.1 audio (Surround Sound) was yet another film industry effort to distinguish itself from what then was available for use in homes.
Anyway, if someone now wants to issue a "Widescreen" version of GWTW, the only way to do it (without distorting the content) would be to cut off the top and/or bottom of every frame all the way through -- just think about how THAT would look . . .
The extra features are now known for this release August 11, 2009
calvinnme
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
An asterisk below indicates this feature was on the 2004 release of this film. The bottom line is that discs 1-4 are pretty much repeats of the 2004 release and disc five has the new material. There are also two books and a CD new to this release. This is, of course, a very good film. It was playing in theatres from 1939 until 1976 when it made its television premiere. However, Warner Bros. has many other great films languishing in its vaults that I'd like to see get just one release. The contents of this 5 disc package are:
Includes the first two discs in the 2-disc S.E. which is the movie itself with commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer. *- Same commentary as before.
DISC 3 (About the Movie):
"The Making of a Legend: Gone With The Wind" the 1989 documentary made by Selznick's sons. *
"Restoring a Legend" - An in-depth look at the restoration. *
Dixie Hails "Gone with the Wind". Footage from 1939 Atlanta and 1961 Civil War Centennial Atlanta premieres. *
Historical theatrical short "The Old South" (1940) directed by Fred Zinnerman. *
Atlanta Civil War Centennial 1961 premiere newsreel *
International prologue *
Foreign language version sample scenes *
Theatrical Trailers *
DISC 4 (About the Cast):
Three Documentaries:
"Melanie Remembers: Olivia de Havilland Recalls Gone With The Wind" *
"Clark Gable: A King Remembered" *
"Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond" *
The Supporting Players - Cameo portraits of an unforgettable ensemble *
DISC 5:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment presents 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year - New documentary about Hollywood's watershed year narrated by Kenneth Branagh. This is a very good documentary that has been playing on TCM as of late.
Gone with the Wind: The Legend Lives On -- Exploring the legacy of the most beloved film through illuminating interviews, footage and visits to historical sites, events and museums
Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara Wars 1980 WBTV Special never before on home video - This movie stars Tony Curtis as David O. Selznick as he looks for the actress that he wants to play Scarlett. I haven't seen it on TV since its original run back in 1980, but it was pretty good as I remember.
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Plus these Premiums:
20-page reproduction of the original and complete 1939 Souvenir Program
40-page Production History Book with photos and production notes
Eight Frameable 5x7 Art Prints
CD soundtrack sampler featuring eight tracks:
Main Title
Tara
The Barbecue
Escape From Atlanta
I'll Never Be Hungry Again
Paddock Scene
Scarlett In The Mist/Rhett Leaves
Flashback/Finale
NOTE:
The 2-disc Blu-Ray release will have all the content above on 2 discs.
Exclusive to the Blu-Ray Ultimate Collector's Edition is MGM - When The Lion Roars Documentary, which you can, of course, buy separately here - MGM: When the Lion Roars.
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