The Wizard of Oz 1939

Release date

08/21/1939

Directors

Victor Fleming

Writers

L. Frank Baum, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, E.Y. Harburg, Edgar Allan Woolf

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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