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Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: October 1, 2013
- Originally Released: 1939
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: All-new feature-length documentary The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Discover how this unprecedented production overcame the odds to become a movie classic and an integral part of Americal culture
- Commentary by Historian John Fricke with the film's cast and crew
- Sing-along feature
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
- DTS HD Master Audio - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke & Margaret Hamilton | |
Performer: | Frank Morgan, Clara Blandick, Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe & Mickey Carroll | |
Directed by | Victor Fleming & King Vidor | |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell | |
Screenwriting by | Noel Langley, Edgar Allan Woolf & Florence Ryerson | |
Composition by | George Bassman, Robert W. Stringer, Herbert Stothart, George E. Stoll & Harold Arlen | |
Produced by | Mervyn LeRoy & Arthur Freed | |
Director of Photography: | Harold Rosson |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog too!"
- The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton)
"The great and powerful Oz has spoken!"
- The Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan)
"Ding-dong, the witch is dead."
- Munchkin song
"There's no place like home."
- Dorothy (Judy Garland)
"Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1939 -
Best Original Score: Herbert Stothart
Academy Awards 1939 -
Best Original Song: E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen
Entertainment Reviews:
More than a movie classic, it's an essential part of the popular culture, thanks to film revivals and the annual TV ritual that, sooner or later, captured every kid growing up in the sixties and seventies.
Full Review
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Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten DVDs Of The Year -- [T]he extras are filled with heart, brains, and, yes, even courage.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: A --
In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.
Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
[The film] remains as entrancing as ever....So vibrant it's like watching the world being painted for the first time.
Total Film
Rating: A+ --
The greatest American movie fantasy.
Full Review
Orange County Register
Ranked #16 in Rolling Stone's Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- [A] dazzling digital reproduction of the original Technicolor.
Rolling Stone
...It somehow seems real and important in a way that most movies don't....The special effects are glorious in that old Hollywood way...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Young Dorothy is bored of her gray life on a Kansas farm. When her house is whisked away by a tornado, it lands somewhere over the rainbow in a Technicolor world, and Dorothy knows she's not in Kansas anymore. This beloved, incomparable classic based on L. Frank Baum's turn-of-the-century novel is a musical and visual candy store. Dorothy's journey to find a way back to Kansas has permeated American culture and film for decades and remains one of the best musicals and children's stories ever filmed.
Plot Synopsis:
Judy Garland stars as Dorothy in a musical based on the classic children's book by L. Frank Baum. When Dorothy's neighbor, Miss Gulch, threatens to take away Dorothy's precious dog, Toto, Dorothy runs away from home. Attempting to return, she and her house are caught in a twister and blown to the garish, color-saturated Land of Oz. The house lands atop Oz's Wicked Witch of the East, killing her and making Dorothy an instant celebrity. The Wicked Witch of the West, the sister of the deceased witch, soon arrives and threatens revenge. Dorothy must escape from Oz by following the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where the great Wizard of Oz can help her return to Kansas. Along the way, Dorothy picks up some new friends--the heartless Tin Man, the brainless Scarecrow, and the courage-less Cowardly Lion, each of whom hopes that the Wizard can offer him what he lacks. The long journey to see the Wizard is filled with dangers and traps planted by the Wicked Witch of the West--as well as lots of phenomenal musical numbers. Filled with extravagant sets and costumes and 40 minutes of rambunctious song and dance routines, Dorothy's adventures in Oz are pure delight. The film deservedly holds a precious place in the hearts of millions.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Friends
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Classic
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Fantasy
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Kids Adventure
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Witches And Wizards
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Jewels
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Recommended
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- THE WIZARD OF OZ held its premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater on August 15, 1939.
- THE WIZARD OF OZ is number six on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
- THE WIZARD OF OZ was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
- MGM acquired the film rights to the L. Frank Baum story for $75,000, a huge amount at the time.
- Some of the original casting desires included either W. C. Fields or Ed Wynn as the Wizard; Fanny Brice or Beatrice Lillie as Glinda, the Good Witch; Gale Sondergaard as the Wicked Witch; and Shirley Temple as Dorothy. After Ray Bolger asked to play the Scarecrow instead of the Tin Man, Buddy Ebsen was cast as the Tin Man but was replaced after nine days of filming by Jack Haley because of breathing problems he suffered at the hands of his costume.
- The picture went through a number of directors: Richard Thorpe, whose nine days of footage were not used; George Cukor; Victor Fleming, who directed most of the color scenes before having to leave to direct GONE WITH THE WIND; and King Vidor, who directed most of the black-and-white scenes set in Kansas.
- Shooting of what was known as Production 1060 was to begin on April 19, 1938, but actually began on October 13, 1938, and lasted until March 16, 1939. The film went well over budget, costing more than $2.75 million. It took in only about $3 million on its initial release.
- Judy Garland was paid $500 a week for the film.
- Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion costume weighed more than 50 pounds.
- The Munchkin coroner, played by Meinhardt Raabe, was also Little Oscar, Oscar Mayer's official spokesman in commercials.
- Jerry Maren, one of the Munchkin Lollipop Guild singers, continued his career in show business, which included stints in more than 60 films as well as appearances on THE MAN SHOW and SEINFELD.
- UNDER THE RAINBOW, a 1981 comedy spoofing the behind-the-scenes making of THE WIZARD OF OZ, starred Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher.
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