I don't watch movies except the very few that find me.

Actually, I only caught the last two minutes of this "Prodigal" thing and just the "beauty" of Lana TURNER and the hair-do(s) and costumes were lol-worthy.

We could say, "It was the '50s," but even worse for me is that dudes like Charleton HESTON and John WAYNE got to be taken seriously. There are still VFWs where veterans sit transfixed in worship in front of WAYNE pretending to be a soldier. His own generation labeled him a draft-dodger and he was booed by wounded patients when he toured a military hospital. But this fakery can get even uglier, like how different "sacred" documents of various religions got sanctified into justifications for territorial conquest and genocide.

I get a lot of static for not going along with the BS meme that John Wayne represented all that's right with the US, like I'm not a "real murkin". Aside from that he always played the same character in every role he was ever in.

The women all have great hair styles, some short like in the '50s..Awful...

All the revisionist garbage: the square jaws, neutrally accented ultra "clean" dialog, clean clothes, perfect hair, phony to the point of laughable town-fronts obviously shot on some studio back lot. I'd like to take a group of fans of this sanitized nonsense and force them to watch a 'Deadwood' marathon the same way 'Alex' ( Malcolm McDowell ) had to undergo his therapy in 'The Clockwork Orange'.

Not just a kindhearted bar owner.

In a way, I find the story compelling, but the way it is pieced together, acted, and shot, I can't help but laugh.

Particularly, the scene when Scarlett returns to Tara after it was sacked by the Yankees.

Where Scarlett and the doctor are in a tight close-up, just their gigantic faces, and she is pleading/demanding that he go deliver Ashley's kid, and she demands and expects (not for Melanie's sake). And the doc tells her oh-so-gently-but-firmly that he just.can't.go. And the camera pans away slowly to reveal the row by row of thousands of wounded soldiers in the background, then fixes on the (damned) rebel flag.

Talk about making a point (about Scarlett's selfishness)!1 And the different chill that that flag carries now instead of the Romanticism.

And Pork was asking: "Who's gonna milk that cow, Miss Scarlett? We's houseworkers." And the over the top melodrama with the radish.

It's amazing how we've changed and the stuff we were told is so different then and now.

It's one of those movies that I've never seen but have at least some interest in.

the norwegian immigrants who came to san francisco in the late 1800's early 1900's are my favorite. kinda corny but always full of heart.

The show Revolution takes place after all electric power goes out for 15 years yet everyone is well fed and everyone has all their clean white teeth.