Screening Of ‘Gone With the Wind’ Cancelled After Complaints Classic Film Is ‘Insensitive’

Memphis’ famous Orpheum Theater will swap Gone With the Wind out of its summer film series next year, after customers complained that the classic film, which was released in the late 1930s and is centered around the events of the American Civil War, is too “insensitive” to be shown in theaters today.

According to the Orpheum Theater Group, which selects the features, scrapping Gone With the Wind wasn’t merely a precaution — people actually complained that the movie triggered viewers with its overt regressiveness after the Orpheum showed it as part of its 2017 series.