"Tara! Home. I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day."
What’s left to say about David Selznick and Victor Fleming’s massive, sweeping movie of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 American Civil War romance? It won eight Oscars, is one of the American Film Institute’s greatest films of all time, regularly tops audience polls of ultimate favourite movies and has more quotable lines than even Casablanca. If you adjusted box-office gross for inflation, it is far and away the most successful film ever made. And to top it off, it comes from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which itself has sold more than 28 million copies. Very much of its time, with its full-blooded, Technicolor melodrama, Fleming’s film defined the term blockbuster, instantly catapulting Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable into the canon of iconic screen romances as Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler. The greatest of all book adaptations? Could be.