(WSB Radio)  It is, perhaps, the most iconic film in American history.  And Saturday night, in Marietta, it gets a grand re-premiere.

"Gone With The Wind" is 70 years old and, to many, it remains the benchmark by which all other movies are judged.

"If that movie were made today, it would still be the grand movie," says Connie Sutherland, director of the Gone With The Wind museum, on the Marietta Square.  The museum is sponsoring the 70th anniversary world re-premiere of the film, and Sutherland was instrumental in bringing the event to Marietta and to the historic Strand Theatre.

"When the Strand was being restored, we had hoped to do something like that and show the movie," she tells WSB.  They tried to show the film earlier this year, but ran into difficulties.  So, they decided to aim for a date closer to the actual 70th anniversary of Gone With The Wind's premiere in Atlanta.  The movie opened on December 15, 1939.

For the re-premiere, some of the original cast members will be in attendance, answering questions from the public, signing autographs, and reminiscing about their part in American cultural history.

Among those who will be in Marietta on Saturday is actress Ann Rutherford.

"Ann Rutherford played Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister, Careen O'Hara," says Chris Sullivan, who owns the collection at the Gone With The Wind museum in Marietta.

Rutherford is one of six credited cast members from the film still alive. 

For the 70th anniversary, the film has been digitally restored, enhancing the sound, and that great technicolor, for which Gone With The Wind is noted.

"I think when people see this film it's going to be very much enhanced compared to the showing at The Fox Theatre just recently," says Sullivan.

Sullivan owns, among other items, a dress worn by Vivien Leigh in the film, costumes worn by Olivia de Haviland and Ona Munson, furniture from the Atlanta mansion in the movie, and a signed ture first edition of the novel, complete with dust jacket, from May of 1939.  He says that, as iconic as the movie is, the Marietta showing will be in an icon of its own; the Strand.

"It's a grand old theatre," he says.  "And it's a magical story about how it fell into disrepair and was neglected and almost got torn down.  But important people in Marietta realized that this was a historic building that needed to be saved, and it was and it was restored.  It will be a grand setting for the film."

Tickets for the event can be purchased, as part of a package, at the museum.

So why has Gone With The Wind endured all these years?  70 years after its premiere, it is still beloved, perhaps more so that any other movie.

Sullivan say it's because the film was made by David O. Selznick, who demanded perfection.

"The quality of the costumes, the casting, everything was perfect," he says.  "There is nothing in that movie that is outdated."

For Sutherland, it's the experience of seeing the film, on the big screen, with the technicolor, the epic story of the Civil War, the love story between Scarlett and Rhett Butler and the idea of losing yourself for 4 1/2 hours in a timeless piece.

"There is nothing else like it," she says.  "When those lights go down and that music, Tara's Theme, rises, it's chill bump time.  It's just a phenomenon."