On Dec. 15, 1939 — 85 years ago Sunday — “Gone With the Wind,” a sweeping tale of romance set against the Civil War and its aftermath in the South and based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ...

In a scene that didn’t make the final cut of 1939’s Gone With the Wind, Rhett Butler sits alone in his bedroom, drinking and fondling a gun. A knock at his door interrupts him from his dark thoughts.

Gone With The Wind is one of my absolute favorite movies. If you haven’t seen this iconic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s melodramatic 1936 novel about the Antebellum South, I suggest you do so as ...