The Wizard of Oz
- Release Date
- August 15, 1939
- Director
- Victor Fleming , Mervyn LeRoy , Richard Thorpe , King Vidor
- Cast
- Judy Garland , Frank Morgan , Ray Bolger , Bert Lahr , Jack Haley , Billie Burke
- Runtime
- 101
- Main Genre
- Adventure
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
- Writers
- Noel Langley , Florence Ryerson , Edgar Allan Woolf , L. Frank Baum , Irving Brecher , William H. Cannon
- Tagline
- Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!
Summary
Dissatisfied with her life on her Auntie Em's (Clara Blandick) and Uncle Henry's (Grapewin) Kansas farm, Dorothy Gale (Garland) is attempting to run away when a twister strikes; Dorothy is knocked unconscious and, more amazingly, her entire house (with Dorothy and Toto inside) is lifted up into the funnel cloud and deposited squarely on top of the now-deceased Wicked Witch of the East in Munchkin City, in the County of the Land of Oz.
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