Wizard of Oz
February 3, 2007
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This timeless classic starring Judy Garland, has been entertaining families for over 60 years. First released in 1939, “The Wizard of Oz” was based on the 1900 children’s book by Frank Baum. Extensively re-worked into a movie script, it tells the story of an orphaned girl being raised by her aunt and uncle on a farm in Kansas.
The movie opens with the girl Dorothy, discussing her problems with a crochety neighbor (soon to be the Wicked Witch). She asks advice from the farm’s three hands (who later become the Tin Man, Lion, and Scarecrow), but it comes to naught, as her little dog Toto, bites the neighbor and is taken away. When the dog escapes and returns, Dorothy decides to run away with him, but in her initial flight, runs into Professor Marvel, a traveling performer, who “sees” her Aunt Em crying in his crystal ball.
Dorothy hurries home, only to find a twister descending on the area, and everyone already in the basement, where they can’t hear her pounding on the door. She runs up to her bedroom for safety, but the window blows out and strikes her on the head. As she recovers, the house is being lifted up inside the tornado, eventually being set down in the Land of Oz, at a place called Munchkinland, populated with “little people”.
As it landed, her house killed the resident Wicked Witch, whose sister soon arrives to claim the magic ruby slippers that made her so powerful. But the Good Witch whisks them onto Dorothy’s feet, with the admonition to never take them off. She then points Dorothy to the Yellow Brick Road, which is the only way to return to Kansas.
On her adventure down the road, she meets the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow without a brain, and the Tin Man who needs a heart. It becomes a joint mission to find the Wizard of Oz, who can give them all, what they desire.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I still remember when I was a kid (prior to VHS and DVD) and it would come on TV every few months. It was an exciting night in our household.
Directors: King Vidor, Victor Fleming
Producers: Arthur Freed, Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke
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