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The Wizard of Oz

  • 19391939
  • GG
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
404K
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Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can retu... Read allYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
404K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
611
161
  • Directors
    • Victor Fleming
    • George Cukor(uncredited)
    • Mervyn LeRoy(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Noel Langley(screenplay)
    • Florence Ryerson(screenplay)
    • Edgar Allan Woolf(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Judy Garland
    • Frank Morgan
    • Ray Bolger
  • Directors
    • Victor Fleming
    • George Cukor(uncredited)
    • Mervyn LeRoy(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Noel Langley(screenplay)
    • Florence Ryerson(screenplay)
    • Edgar Allan Woolf(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Judy Garland
    • Frank Morgan
    • Ray Bolger
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 802User reviews
    • 168Critic reviews
    • 92Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #222
    • Won 2 Oscars

    Videos15

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    Photos275

    Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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    Margaret Hamilton, Sid Dawson, and Pat Walshe in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Margaret Hamilton and Pat Walshe in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Terry in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Clara Blandick, Charley Grapewin, and Terry in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Jack Haley in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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    Judy Garland
    Judy Garland
    • Dorothy Gale
    Frank Morgan
    Frank Morgan
    • Professor Marvel…
    Ray Bolger
    Ray Bolger
    • 'Hunk'…
    Bert Lahr
    Bert Lahr
    • 'Zeke'…
    Jack Haley
    Jack Haley
    • 'Hickory'…
    Billie Burke
    Billie Burke
    • Glinda
    Margaret Hamilton
    Margaret Hamilton
    • Miss Gulch…
    Charley Grapewin
    Charley Grapewin
    • Uncle Henry
    Pat Walshe
    • Nikko
    Clara Blandick
    Clara Blandick
    • Auntie Em
    Terry
    Terry
    • Toto
    • (as Toto)
    The Singer Midgets
    The Singer Midgets
    • The Munchkins
    • (as The Munchkins)
    Franz Balluck
    • Munchkin
    • (uncredited)
    Josefine Balluck
    • Munchkin
    • (uncredited)
    Dorothy Barrett
    Dorothy Barrett
    • Emerald City Manicurist
    • (uncredited)
    Amelia Batchelor
    • Ozmite
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Becker
    • Munchkin Mayor
    • (uncredited)
    Freda Betsky
    • Munchkin
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Victor Fleming
      • George Cukor(uncredited)
      • Mervyn LeRoy(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Noel Langley(screenplay) (adaptation)
      • Florence Ryerson(screenplay)
      • Edgar Allan Woolf(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      Many shots were trimmed down or edited out of the film because they were too intense for families and children. In particular, one deleted shot shows the tornado completely enveloping the farmhouse. Later in the film. Also a lot of The Wicked Witch of the West's scenes were either trimmed or deleted entirely, as Margaret Hamilton's performance was thought to be too frightening for audiences.
    • Goofs
      After Scarecrow is given an honorary diploma, he says "The sum of the square roots of any 2 sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side". This is a misstatement of the Pythagorean Theorem, which is, in fact, about right triangles and not isosceles ones. However, this statement is not true about any triangle, and so it is completely wrong.
    • Quotes

      Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?

      The Scarecrow: I don't know! But some people without brains do an *awful* lot of talking, don't they?

      Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

    • Crazy credits
      Toto is listed in the end credits as being played by Toto, when he was actually played by a female dog named Terry.
    • Alternate versions
      From 1968 to 1984, on NBC-TV and CBS-TV airings of the film, the film was edited to sell more commercial time. As the amount of commercial time on network television gradually increased, more scenes were cut. According to film historian John Fricke, these cuts started with solely a long tracking shot of Munchkin Land after Dorothy arrives there. The rest of the film remained intact. Also according to Fricke, more wholesale cutting of the film took place when CBS regained the TV rights in 1975. By the 1980s, the other excised shots included: the film's dedication in the opening credits, continuity shots of Dorothy and Toto running from the farm, establishing shots of the cyclone, the aforementioned tracking sequence in Munchkin Land, the establishing shot of the poppy field, and tiny bits and pieces of the trip to the Wicked Witch's castle. CBS, which had shown the uncut version of the film in 1956, and again from the films first telecast until 1968, finally started to show it uncut again beginning in 1985, by time-compressing it. Network airings in the 1990s were uncut and not time-compressed; the film aired in a 2-hour, 10-minute time period.
    • Connections
      Edited into Chain Lightning (1950)
    • Soundtracks
      Over the Rainbow
      (uncredited)

      Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg

      Music by Harold Arlen

      Sung by Judy Garland

    User reviews802

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    Featured review
    10/10
    Timeless classic still entertaining the masses as each new generation comes in.
    Dorothy is a young girl living on a Kansas farm, during a tornado, she, along with her dog Toto, is swept up and plonked down in a magical and mysterious land known as Oz. Desperate to get back home and under threat from a wicked witch, she is advised to seek out a great wizard who should be able to help her get back home. As she sets off and on her way, she meets and befriends a wonderful array of characters whom also have something to ask of the fabled wizard. It's a journey that will prove to be both magical and fraught with danger.

    The Wizard Of Oz is a film that has been pored over and dissected from almost everyone involved in the wonderful world of film. One thing that strikes me every time I view it is that there not only is no place like home, there is also no film like The Wizard Of Oz, and really, when all is said and done, there is unlikely to be another film of its ilk to ever grace the silver screen. Upon multiple viewings only the most biased of film fan could say that it is a technically perfect picture, it clearly isn't, for at times it's a wee bit creaky and when scrutinised, some of the performances in the piece are far from being of an excellent standard. Crucially, though, any misgivings are quickly erased due to the utter wonder of it all, you see this is because the film has a beguiling ability to transport everybody who is watching it and slot them into OZ alongside Dorothy.

    The Wizard Of Oz appeals (and caters) to every demographic and pretty much any age group, we have adventure, the meeting of new friends, fears and trepidations, booming colour, songs to singalong with, and of course the total crux point of homely values. The Wizard Of Oz stands up well 80 years later because it taps into all the emotions available to the human being. Be it a young child spellbound on a first viewing, or an octogenarian couple of grandparents wistfully humming along to the tunes, it's a film that shouldn't be dissected looking for faults and hidden meanings, it's a film that should be loved and praised for the ode to fantastical whimsy that it so obviously is.

    The film of course will forever be associated with its darling star, Judy Garland. Viewing now, and knowing what a sad life she would eventually lead, The Wizard Of Oz is a fitting picture on which to remember what a magical and wonderful performer she was. Myself as a lump of waning middle aged machismo, has no shame in saying that as Judy sings Somewhere Over The Rainbow I melt and feel as though I'm being sent spinning into another world, that's the power of the piece, because as a sepia Kansas becomes the glorious colour of Oz, nothing else in my world matters, I'm in hook line and sinker.

    There are many interesting back stories to the picture, with books galore available to anyone interested. Some notes that might interest you being the original castings to be W.C. Fields, Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin, munchkins running riot, drunken cast members, sadness and suicides, and grizzled old pros fighting hard not to let Garland steal the picture. Well it makes for a great read, for sure, but what remains to this day is one of the most beloved pictures to have ever been made, for once in the pantheon of great cinema we have a film that is termed a classic, that actually deserves to have that tag!

    One of the great things about the advent of technology is that it can benefit old classic movies to make them better, for now we can view remastered editions of The Wizard Of Oz and appreciate even more what a great job the makers did. Keep your eyes on Dorothy's Ruby Slippers during the film and see how they are the sparkling important character that they should be, or take in the brilliant work of the make up crew, the tiniest of rivets on The Tin Man a testament to the brilliant work that goes into bringing magic to our lives. Get the newest copy you can and then also see it on the biggest screen available to you because The Wizard Of Oz is a 10/10 movie. And then some.
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    • hitchcockthelegend
    • Dec 26, 2008

    FAQ14

    • How many munchkins appeared in the film?
    • In the credits, Judy Garland had two "Dance" stand-ins. What are they and in what scenes were they used for? Why would she need them? She was a decent dancer. I have seen her dance in many movies!
    • Is Oz real or did Dorothy dream the whole thing?

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    • Release date
      • August 25, 1939 (United States)
      • United States
      • Warner Bros.
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Stage 28, Sony Pictures Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    Technical specs

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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
      • Color

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