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The Wizard of Oz (1939) [G]

Release Date:
August 15, 1939

Original Title:
The Wizard of Oz

Alternate Titles:
Das zauberhafte Land
Der Hexer von Oz
El mago de Oz
Le magicien d'Oz
Trollmannen fra Oz
Vrajitorul din Oz
เดอะ วิซาร์ด ออฟ ออซ

Genres:
Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: G  BE: 14  BR: L  DK: A  FI: K-7|K-12  FR: TP  GB: U  HU: KN  IE: G  IT: T  KR: ALL  KZ: К  MX: B-15  NL: AL  NO: 12  PT: M/14|M/3  SE: Btl|7  TH: G  US: G 

Runtime: 102

We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!

Overview from TheMovieDB

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

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American Film Institute (AFI)
1998
#6 		100 Years: 100 MOVIES
100 Greatest American Movies Of All Time
2001
#43 		100 Years: 100 THRILLS
100 Most Thrilling American Films
2003
#4 		100 Years: 100 HEROES & VILLAINS
50 Greatest Villains
“The Wicked Witch of the West”
2004
#1 		100 Years: 100 SONGS
100 Greatest American Movie Music
“Over the Rainbow”
2004
#82 		100 Years: 100 SONGS
100 Greatest American Movie Music
“Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”
2005
#4 		100 Years: 100 MOVIE QUOTES
100 Greatest Movie Quotes Of All Time
“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
2005
#23 		100 Years: 100 MOVIE QUOTES
100 Greatest Movie Quotes Of All Time
“There's no place like home.”
2005
#99 		100 Years: 100 MOVIE QUOTES
100 Greatest Movie Quotes Of All Time
“I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too! ”
2006
#26 		100 Years: 100 CHEERS
100 Most Inspiring Films Of All Time
2006
#3 		100 Years: MUSICALS
25 Greatest Movie Musicals Of All Time
2007
#10 		100 Years: 100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
100 Greatest American Films Of All Time
2008
#1 		Top 10: FANTASY
10 Greatest FANTASY Films of All Time

Performers

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Production

Adaptation:
Noel Langley

Art Direction:
Cedric Gibbons
Wade B. Rubottom
George Gibson

Assistant Director:
Harrold Weinberger
Al Shenberg
Wallace Worsley Jr.

Author:
L. Frank Baum

Camera Operator:
Ray Ramsey
Sam Cohen

Camera Technician:
Fred Detmers

Casting:
Leonard Murphy

Co-Director:
King Vidor

Costume Design:
Adrian

Director:
Victor Fleming

Director of Photography:
Harold Rosson

Editor:
Blanche Sewell

Hairstylist:
Beth Langston

Lyricist:
E.Y. Harburg

Makeup Artist:
Fred B. Phillips
Robert J. Schiffer
Jack H. Young
Norbert A. Myles
Web Overlander
Charles H. Schram
Emile LaVigne
Lee Stanfield
Jack Dawn
Lyle Dawn

Makeup Department Head:
Cecil Holland

Music:
Harold Arlen

Original Music Composer:
Herbert Stothart

Producer:
Mervyn LeRoy
Arthur Freed

Production Design:
Jack Martin Smith
William A. Horning
Malcolm Brown

Production Manager:
Keith Weeks

Props:
Jack E. Ackerman

Screenplay:
Florence Ryerson
Noel Langley
Edgar Allan Woolf

Second Unit Director:
Mervyn LeRoy

Set Decoration:
Edwin B. Willis

Songs:
Harold Arlen

Sound:
James Burbridge
Chip Gaither

Sound Designer:
O.O. Ceccarini
Douglas Shearer

Sound Editor:
T.B. Hoffman

Sound Effects:
Franklin Milton

Sound Effects Editor:
Ralph Shugart
James Graham

Sound Mixer:
Don T. Whitmore
John A. Williams
Lowell Kinsall
G.A. Burns
George G. Schneider

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Frank McKenzie
Standish J. Lambert
Robert Shirley

Sound Recordist:
P. Richard Stevens

Sound Supervisor:
Michael Steinore
Douglas Shearer
William Steinkamp

Special Effects:
Corril Harris
A. Arnold Gillespie

Special Effects Supervisor:
Edwin Bloomfield

Special Sound Effects:
Franklin Milton

Staff Writer:
Herman J. Mankiewicz

Stunt Double:
Dorothy Andre

Stunts:
Billy Curtis
George Bruggeman
Ambrose Schindler
Harry Monty
Betty Danko
Aline Goodwin

Supervising Art Director:
Elmer Sheeley

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