The most famous film ever made starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard
Here it is at last - the film that more people have been to the cinema to see than any other has finally come to television. Winner of ten Academy Awards and a milestone in movie history, the passionate, stormy romance of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara is played out against the devastating conflict of the Civil War and the South's traumatic reconstruction, in epic scale.
Part 1: Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara is mortified to learn that Ashley Wilkes, the handsome neighbour with whom she fancies herself in love, is about to announce his engagement to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. Ashley is attracted to Scarlett like a moth to a candle but lacks the courage either to woo her or to make her realise that it is Melanie he loves - a mistake which is to have a lasting effect on all their lives. On the day of Ashley's betrothal, Rhett Butler, black sheep of an old Charleston family, is an amused witness of Scarlett's pique...

(First showing on British television) (Part 2 tomorrow at 8.20 pm)