'Gone With the Wind' to be at Lincoln Theater

[September 10, 2011]  The Lincoln Theater 4 announces a one-week, limited engagement screening of the MGM classic "Gone With the Wind," winner of 10 Academy Awards, including best picture.

The movie will be shown at the downtown theater Sept. 16-22 at 2 and 7 p.m. daily.

"Our theater has not yet converted to digital projectors. We had to request special permission from Warner Brothers to have their only remaining 35 mm film copy released from their vaults," said theater owner David Lanterman. "We are very excited to bring this classic back to the big screen. Soon all movies will be released in digital format only, so really you will be experiencing the end of an era as film fades away into history."

The Lincoln Theater 4 is at 215 S. Kickapoo St., just off the courthouse square.

Ticket price will be $5 for all shows.

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About the movie:

"Gone With the Wind" is described as the grandest, most ambitious and spectacular piece of filmmaking in cinematic history. With more than 50 speaking roles and 2,400 extras, the film is the quintessential Hollywood epic.

Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland star in "Gone With the Wind," which for more than a half-century has thrilled audiences with its eternal love affair, set in the South against the backdrop of the Civil War, between handsome Rhett Butler (Gable) and his sassy, headstrong heroine Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh).

With each new generation, "Gone With the Wind" continues to grow in popularity as new audiences discover and embrace the David O. Selznick production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

[Text from file received from Lincoln Theater]