Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]
by Victor Fleming

Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh
Director: Victor Fleming
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dubbed, Full Screen, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-11-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:

Period romance. War epic. Family saga. Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance. Star acting aglow with charisma and passion. Moviemaking craft at its height. These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind.This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a hi

DVD Reviews of Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Very disappointed that this is not wide screen.
Summary: 1 Stars

I never thought that the Blue-Ray version of a grate movie would not be wide-screen. The lost beauty for the full panoramas is very disappointing. I'm sending it back and waiting for the real thing. Plus the music has lost something. I don't think they bothered to re-master it. Compare the sound to MP3 downloads from Amazon and you will hear the difference.

DVD Review: The Omission of Hattie McDaniel's bio
Summary: 4 Stars

Acknowledgements of the African American actors were ignored in the re-packaged version of GWTW.

I am especially disgusted that Hattie McDaniel was not given a biography page(or 2 actually) as were given to the other stars. This is considering the fact that GWTW is considered a national treasure and that she is more 'American' than Vivien Leigh and some of the other stars.

Both her parents were slaves, and by virtue of this fact, they directly contributed to the South's wealth. In addition, her father, Henry McDaniel served in Tennessee's Twelfth United States Colored Infantry, which mean he fought for the South! In fact, after the war, he was crippled for life.

The 70th anniversary team had a chance to re-write history but they instead chose to ignore including her biography, and thus, her and her family's contributions to the South. They had a chance to teach America's increasingly diverse population that its history was multi faceted but they chose not to.

I find that this racist omission/re-writing of history is similar to the assertion by Ashley Wilkes (in the scene where he is opposing Scarlett's use of prison workers for their company) in the film that slaves were not treated badly. Ha! Such a joke.

I hope that subsequent editions take this history into account, because if not the actions presented as historical truth will always leave a bitter taste when I hear of GWTW.

DVD Review: Code free, with german language track
Summary: 5 Stars

First: this US BluRay release is Code Free, and contains a german soundtrack
Limited of 150'000 pieces.

Picture quality is amazing.
Bonus features: the set is wonderful with many interesting documentaries and interviews. Specially very interesting is: "Melanie Remember" with Olivia De Havilland. She talk with so much love about her experience during the making of the movie.

Thanks Olivia De Havilland for that Interview you gave in 2004 and thanks to WB for the wonderful release!

DVD Review: the smackmaster general is dealing
Summary: 5 Stars

there's much for men to love about "GONE WITH THE WIND" ? did i just type that ? the greatest pleasure for men in this admittedly awesome soap opera is no doubt the peerless CLARK GABLE . i've seen a raft of film in my 4 1/2 + decades on this sphere . i have never witnessed an actor relish delivering such a smack laden performance in my life . at the very peak of his formidable game GABLE dug in and truly delivered the goods . it's all a hoot . the woman are lovely . the story very involving . the production incredible . the direction fantastic . you take GABLE out of the equation though ? great film . phenomenal performance . check it out if you haven't already .

DVD Review: not a true story.
Summary: 5 Stars

the love story in gone with the wind is not a true story about the authours grandmother . part of it did come from stories she sat around and listen to from her grandmother the lovers in her book are named after her own men in her life . ms mitchell we will always love gone with the wind. the best movie ever. thank you [...] have been on the hunt for this movie for years now.

Description of Gone with the Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]

Period romance. War epic. Family saga. Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance. Star acting aglow with charisma and passion. Moviemaking craft at its height. These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind.

This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a New 70th-Anniversary Digital Transfer capturing a higher-resolution image from Restored Picture Elements than ever before possible. David O. Selznick's monumental production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning book can now enthrall new generations of home viewers with a majestic vibrance that befits one of Hollywood's greatest achievements.

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 Keogh

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