Dorothy rushes home as a tornado approaches. Not far from the farm, she runs into Professor Marvel, a charlatan fortune-teller who uses his crystal ball to make Dorothy believe that Aunt Em is heartbroken. Miss Gulch takes Toto away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy she decides to run away to save her dog. Toto bites the wealthy and grouchy Miss Almira Gulch on the leg, leading her to obtain a sheriff's order to have him destroyed. In sepia-toned Kansas, Dorothy Gale lives with her Cairn Terrier, Toto, on a farm belonging to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, who employ the quirky farmhands Zeke, Hunk and Hickory.
Garland as Dorothy Gale and Terry the Dog as Toto 3.3.6 Sexual harassment allegations and other abuse that Judy Garland endured.3.3.5 King Vidor's finishing work as director.3.3.4 Victor Fleming, the main director.The film ranks often on critics' lists of greatest films of all time, and is the most commercially successful adaptation of L. The Wizard of Oz has become the source of many quotes referenced in contemporary popular culture.
It was among the top ten in the 2005 BFI ( British Film Institute) list of "50 films to be seen by the age of 14", and is on the BFI's updated list of "50 films to be seen by the age of 15" released in May 2020. It is also one of the few films on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. In 1989, it was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Library of Congress, it is the most seen film in movie history. The 1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on the CBS network reintroduced the film to the public according to the U.S. While the film was sufficiently popular at the box office, it failed to make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget, not including promotional costs, which made it MGM's most expensive production at that time. The film was considered a critical success and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning in two categories: Best Original Song for " Over the Rainbow" and Best Original Score by Stothart. The musical score and incidental music were composed by Herbert Stothart.Ĭharacterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score, and memorable characters, The Wizard of Oz was moderately successful upon its original release of August 25, 1939. The songs were written by Edgar "Yip" Harburg and composed by Harold Arlen. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but others made uncredited contributions. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film was primarily directed by Victor Fleming (who left the production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind), and stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton. "Ste" of Framingham,Ma.The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Agreeably to that other persons' review called ghostbusters this is a disappointment to fans of the 1939 classic but still in giving any credit where it's due most of the characters are well recreated except these 2 for examples one for Dorothy's hairdo having ponytails instead of braids and The Wizard of Oz having a mustache of which he didn't have but Professor Marvel of whom was played by the same actor of Frank Morgan did and like him was a fraud at what he did. The Thought of bringing the Wicked Witch of The West back to life by the flying monkeys or anyway what-so-ever?Along with her(The Witch taking the Oz characters gifts given to them by the Wizard is horrible as seen in this cartoon along with the episode in which The Witch follows Dorothy back to Kansas along with burning her house down is just horrible.This really goes out of bounds of something that's supposed to just be a dream sequence.Also for those of whom may be easily influenced the sequences to the tune of The Merry old Land of Oz like The Upside Down Town way would just naturally take those people away.As well as the episode in which The tiger and the bear are once seen.But anyhow The Wicked Witch being revived is just not good at all.In 1967 the same network that released/showed this cartoon had earlier in 1967 showed "Off to see the Wizard."on Friday nights in Prime Time that was done in a more tasteful way that's based on the 1939 Classic of The Wizard of Oz.