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Summary: The Greatest Movie Ever Made! There's No Movie Like Oz!
Review: As a kid I always awaited that time when The Wizard of Oz would play on TV. Me and my brother would stare transfixed at the TV all during the movie. And when I started my video collection this was the first movie bought. Judy Garland gives a spectaculer performance as Dorthey Gale an orphaned girl living on her Auntie Em & Uncle Henry's farm with her dog Toto. Dorthey dreams of flying over the rainbow to a land where there are no worries or troubles. She gets her wish when a tornado whisks her, Toto, & even her Kansas farmhouse over the rainbow to the land of Oz. There she meets munchkins, a cowerdly lion, a talking scarecrow, & a tinman without a heart.By the advice of Glinda the Good Witch of the North (Billie Burke) Dorthey follows the Yellow Brick Road to ask the Wizard of Oz to go home, Glinda also places the powerful ruby slippers on Dorthey's feet which attracts the attention on the Wicked Witch of the West (Margeret Hamilton) to follow her. On the way down the Yellow Brick Road Dorthey befriends a Scarecrow who longs to have brains, a tinman who wishes he had a heart, & a cowardly lion who'd give anything to have courage. With these new friends Dorthey reaches the Emerald City were they ask the Wizard of Oz to grant thier wishes instead the wizard tells them to bring back the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West and then he well grant their wishes. And from that point the story gets exciting when the four go searching for the castle of the Wicked Witch. The movie was followed by a sequel made by Disney which was a total disgrace to MGM's 1939 classic.
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Summary: Cut and Dry
Review: You have to have this classic in your collection. Nothing else that needs to be said :-)
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: Other reviewers before me have praised "Wizard of Oz" to the heavens. Who can disagree? It's actually an improvement on the L. Frank Baum book, and that's saying a great deal for any movie. If you look at the scenes that were cut from the movie, you have to agree that, good as they are, they would have detracted overall from the film instead of adding to it. No "director's cut" here! This is a movie that is almost as good as it could possibly get. Why "almost"? Well, they missed one good bet. No one has ever said this before, but the bet they missed was, at the very end, when Judy Garland is in bed back on the farm and we see that she is wearing the red slippers, the slippers should have been colored red! That would have been the icing on the cake. I had this idea way before I saw "Schindler's List," where the color pink was inserted in a black-and-white scene, to tremendous effect. But as good as the Schindler movie was in using this effect, "Oz" would been even better, since the redness of the slippers in a black-and-white movie is a PLOT thing instead of, as in Schindler, just a visual thing. Maybe some remastered version in the future will color those slippers red, and thrill a new generation of viewers! But it won't happen, because all the purists will complain! Purists are like censors; once they see it one way, they don't want anyone else to see it another way or even (in the case of censors) to see it at all.
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Summary: Defective DVD?
Review: Folks, This is my favorite 'special features' dvd with one exception - I can't click in to the 'Awards' section. Has anyone else had this problem?
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Summary: There's No Place Like Home -- Still A Sensational Movie!
Review: After over 60 years of being out, "The Wizard of OZ," is still one of the #1 movies out there today. I'm 14 years old and have loved both the movie and Judy Garland since the age I was first introduced. Judy Garland and Jack Haley do a superb job in this film. With Judy Garland's first big sucess, this could not have been a better movie to have done! No matter what age you are, from 4 years old, to 14, to 44, there still is no movie like it and no movie better!
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Summary: JUDY`S FIRST "MIRACLE" FILM
Review: Yes, fans of Judy Garland have always been quarreling over the best Garland. The contenders are this film, Minnelli`s MEET MEIN ST. LOUIS 44 and Cukor`s A STAR IS BORN 54. This DVD is a real treat. The docu is a feast, especially when Judy and the rest of the cast tells their recollections of making the picture. There are questions asked why they cut the film, but from watching the deleted scenes(or what`s left of it)it was a wise move. JUDY GARLAND sparkles as Dorothy Gale and successfully creates a charafter of flesh and blood. Thanks 2 her voice, charisma, talent and good production values this is the 2nd Victor Fleming film that will be a testement that the art of moviemaking indeeeeeeeeeeed can be high-art of timess appeal.
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Summary: Needs an extra audio track
Review: Disregard the rating... I don't own this DVD... but I would if there were just one more extra. Considering that Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" synchs up so well with the movie, it would have been good to have it as an audio track. It just kind of defeats the purpose with that missing (at least for me it does). I've done the VHS version with my DSOTM CD several times... cutting out that step would be ideal.
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Summary: They dont make movies like that anymore
Review: Its a good feeling magical movie with fantastic songs. They dont make movies like the Alien 1,Jurrasic park 1 ,Shining or Star Wars 1,2 and 3. Even Goerge.L has faild us. I was really thinking about rating the w.o.o 5 stars. P.s i cant write Enghlis perfectly.
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Summary: Am I ever glad Shirley Temple didn't get the lead!
Review: During casting for THE WIZARD OF OZ the leading contender for the role of Dorothy was Shirley Temple, one of the top box office draws of the day. Am I ever glad that things worked out so that Judy Garland ended up as Dorothy. She makes a much more convincing Kansas farm girl (beautiful, none-the-less) than Temple would have with her perfectly curled trademark appearance. I fear that if Temple had gotten the lead this film would have been just another vehicle for her, not the classic that resulted from the casting of Garland. That casting, along with that of the other lead players produced a chemistry of actors and characters that caused this movie to become universally acclaimed as one of the greatest movies of all time. The use of black and white film for the opening and closing scenes, and the use of the then (1939) new color technology for the main part of the movie was a stroke of genius. The only reason this movie didn't win the best picture Oscar in 1939 was that GONE WITH WIND also came out that year (which also used the new color film technology to dazzle audiences, plus it had Clark Gable!). THE WIZARD OF OZ the film adaptation of Baum's classic book of the same name is a masterpiece of fantasy and musical film making. The special effects are first-rate, especially considering the fact that this film was released 61 years ago! The unlikely heroine, Dorothy, still endears herself to audiences today. And we still love to hate the wicked witch and her counterpart in the real world. Don't all of us seceretly hope to be able to enter a magical place like the Land of Oz, meet enchanted characters, and have an adventure memorable for a life-time. That is what the Wizard of Oz is -- an adventure of a life time. This film is watchable by viewers of all ages, though I still cringe when the wicked witch melts away -- something that somewhat traumatized me as a child. Winged monkeys didn't really bother me, much. If you are paying close attention as you watch this film keep an eye open and you will realize how deeply engrained this film now is in mainstream American culture. A classic movie for all time! Definitely 5 stars. Enjoy -- Alan Holyoak
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Summary: Five-Star Film, Four-Star DVD
Review: The Wizard of Oz is, as Leonard Maltin puts it, "a genuine American classic". This is one of my favorite films of all time, yet I was slightly disappointed by the DVD version. There is one simple reason for my disappointment: the DVD is not in widescreen! What happened here? Did someone forget to format it correctly? This is an American classic, and I've never seen it in widescreen. This is a film that DEFINITELY needs to be shown in widescreen; infact, I was shocked that it wasn't. I do, however, HIGHLY recommend it anyway.
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