GONE ARE THE DAYS is a film where Unforgiven meets Lonesome Dove in this classical western at the turn of the century. “Gone were the days” would set the context to a perfect past tense where you are describing the days that were no longer existing while you are still set in the past. Directly: “Gone are the days” is correct. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin to secure the family inheritance. Aged, ill, and unable to reconcile the man he was to who he has become, Flynn is hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. Eg. With Lance Henriksen, Tom Berenger, Billy Lush, Meg Steedle. With Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Godfrey Cambridge, Hilda Haynes. An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. Directed by Mark Landre Gould. Directed by Nicholas Webster.