Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 101
Rating: 4.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Victor FlemingMervyn LeRoyRichard ThorpeKing Vidor
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, Mono, SDDS
Taglines:

"The Wizard" Musical Returns By Unprecedented Demand! [UK re-release]

Amazing Sights To See ! The Tornado . . . Munchkinland . . . Horse Of A Different Color . . . Startling Balloon Ascent . . . Flying Monkeys . . . Trees That Talk And Throw Apples

Mighty Miracle Show Of 1000 Delights !

What is Oz? (re-release)

Great On The Wide Screen ! (1955 re-release)

Hear beloved star JUDY GARLAND sing "Over The Rainbow" and other songs ! (re-release)

Lets go "Over the Rainbow" with Judy in her greatest hit! (1955 re-release)

Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers Technicolor Triumph

Biggest Screen Sensation Since "Snow White"!

The Mighty Miracle Show That Is the Talk of America!

The Greatest Picture in the History of Entertainment

Writing by: Noel Langley - (screenplay) and
Florence Ryerson - (screenplay) and
Edgar Allan Woolf - (screenplay)
Noel Langley - (adaptation)
L. Frank Baum - (novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz")
Irving Brecher - uncredited
William H. Cannon - uncredited
Herbert Fields - uncredited
Arthur Freed - uncredited
Jack Haley - additional dialogue (uncredited)
E.Y. Harburg - uncredited
Samuel Hoffenstein - uncredited
Bert Lahr - additional dialogue (uncredited)
John Lee Mahin - uncredited
Herman J. Mankiewicz - uncredited
Jack Mintz - uncredited
Sid Silvers - uncredited

Produced by: Mervyn LeRoy - producer
Arthur Freed - associate producer (uncredited)

Cast: Judy Garland - Dorothy Gale
Frank Morgan - Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Guard Who Cries / The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger - Hunk / The Scarecrow
Bert Lahr - Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
Jack Haley - Hickory / The Tin Man
Billie Burke - Glinda
Margaret Hamilton - Elmira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West / The Wicked Witch of the East
Charley Grapewin - Uncle Henry
Pat Walshe - Nikko
Clara Blandick - Auntie Em
Terry - Toto (as Toto)

Music: Atli Örvarsson
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Plot Outline: Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
Plot: In this charming film based on the popular L.Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornados path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

Crazy Credits: We know about 5 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The Oz characters that Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Margaret Hamilton play are not actually listed in the cast list at the end; only their Kansas counterparts are.

Goofs: We know about 83 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Dorothy walks over to the curtain where the wizard is, she leans down and picks up Toto who was tied to the curtain. When she picks him up hes already untied.

Trivia: There are 125 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The title role was written with W.C. Fields in mind. Producer Mervyn LeRoy wanted Ed Wynn, who turned down the role. MGM executive Arthur Freed wanted Fields, and offered him $75,000. Fields supposedly wanted $100,000. According to a letter from Fields agent (which he claimed was written by Fields) Fields turned down the role to devote his time to writing the script for You Cant Cheat an Honest Man (1939).
• Ray Bolger was originally cast as the Tin Woodsman. However, he insisted that he would rather play the Scarecrow - his childhood idol, Fred Stone had originated that role on stage in 1902.
• Buddy Ebsen had been cast as the Scarecrow, and now switched roles with Bolger. But the aluminum powder makeup for the Tin Woodsman was toxic and Ebsen apparently had an allergic reaction to it as well. He left the picture, but his voice can still be heard in "Off to see the Wizard".

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