Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adaptit frae Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winnin 1936 novel an producit bi David O. Selznick, o Selznick International Pictures. Set in the 19t-century American Sooth, the film tells the story o Scarlett O'Hara, played bi Vivien Leigh, an her romantic pursuit o Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) who is mairit tae his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), an her marriage tae Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Set against the backdrop o the American Ceevil War an Reconstruction era, the story is telt frae the perspective o white Sootherners.

Gone with the Wind
Theatrical pre-release poster
Directit bi	Victor Fleming George Cukor (uncreditit) Sam Wood (uncreditit)
Produced bi	David O. Selznick
Screenplay bi	Sidney Howard Oliver H.P. Garrett (uncredited) Ben Hecht (uncredited) Barbara Keon (uncredited) Jo Swerling (uncredited)
Based on	Gone with the Wind bi Margaret Mitchell
Starnin	Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland
Muisic bi	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Ernest Haller Lee Garmes (uncredited)
Eeditit bi	Hal C. Kern James E. Newcom
Production company	Selznick International Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributit bi	Loew's, Inc.
Release date	15 December 1939 (1939-12-15) (Atlanta premiere)
Rinnin time	220 minutes 234–238 minutes (wi owerture, intermission, entr'acte, an exit muisic)
Kintra	Unitit States
Leid	Inglis
Budget	$3.85 million
Box office	$390 million