The Wizard of Oz: Book vs. Movie
Victor Fleming's 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz adapts L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Judy Garland plays Dorothy, a Kansas girl searching for a way home from a strange land.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- L. Frank Baum
- Year
- 1900
- Pages
- 159Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 4 hr 4 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Laurel Lefkow
- Series
- Oz book series
A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to a country of witches, talking animals, and enchanted landscapes. To ask the Wizard of Oz for a way home, she sets out for the Emerald City with a Scarecrow seeking brains, a Tin Woodman seeking a heart, and a Lion seeking courage. Their different wishes give them a reason to stay together through the dangers of the journey.
- Director
- Victor Fleming, King Vidor
- Writer
- Florence Ryerson, Noel Langley, Edgar Allan Woolf
- Year
- 1939
- Runtime
- 1 hr 38 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
- Genre
- Adventure, cinematic fairy tale, Drama, Family, Fantasy, musical
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A tornado carries Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto from Kansas to Oz, where a pair of ruby slippers makes her the target of a furious witch. Following the yellow brick road to a wizard who might send her home, Dorothy befriends a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion. Each hopes the journey will supply something they believe they lack.
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