As the titles and credits play, carefully-selected images of the Old South are portrayed as backgrounds - a green pasture with horses grazing, a river at night, magnolias, a mill constructed from bricks, slaves working in the fields, peaceful Southern plantations, the city of Atlanta, and a sunset.Titanic (1997)andThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)are the only films to tie this phenomenal record, although unlike this film, they came awaywithoutany acting Oscars.With three years advance publicity and Hollywood myth-making, hree and one-half hours running time (with one intermission), a gala premiere in Atlanta on December 15, 1939, highest-grossing film status (eventually reaching an unadjusted intake of almost $200 million domestic, and just over $402 million worldwide), and Max Steiner""s sweeping musical score, the exquisitely-photographed, Technicolor film was a blockbuster in its own time.Harry promised to destroy it if he knew its location - she reluctantly revealed that it was now hidden in the Room of Requirement ("in the castle, in the place where everything is hidden").Damn, you dumb!King: (chuckling) It don""t make no difference.She know what I mean.She don""t read too good no how!Two other black recruits, stocky Big Harold (Forest Whitaker) and Junior (Reggie Johnson), whined about their C-rations, pork and turkey loaf, and joked about Big Harold""s laziness.