Dorothy Gale viene spazzata via da una fattoria nel Kansas nel mondo magico di Oz in un tornado e si imbarca in una missione con i suoi nuovi amici per vedere il Mago che può aiutarla a torn... Leggi tuttoDorothy Gale viene spazzata via da una fattoria nel Kansas nel mondo magico di Oz in un tornado e si imbarca in una missione con i suoi nuovi amici per vedere il Mago che può aiutarla a tornare a casa ed anche aiutare i suoi amici.Dorothy Gale viene spazzata via da una fattoria nel Kansas nel mondo magico di Oz in un tornado e si imbarca in una missione con i suoi nuovi amici per vedere il Mago che può aiutarla a tornare a casa ed anche aiutare i suoi amici.
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- QuizJudy Garland found it difficult to be afraid of Margaret Hamilton, because she was such a nice lady off-camera.
- BlooperAfter the Wizard gives the Scarecrow his diploma, he says, "The sum of the square roots of any 2 sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side." This is a misstatement of the Pythagorean Theorem, which is, in fact, about right triangles and not isosceles ones. However, this statement is not true about any triangle, and so it is completely wrong.
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Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
The Scarecrow: I don't know! But some people without brains do an *awful* lot of talking, don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
- Curiosità sui creditiToto is listed in the end credits as being played by Toto, when he was actually played by a female dog named Terry.
- Versioni alternativeFrom 1968 to 1984, on NBC-TV and CBS-TV airings of the film, the film was edited to sell more commercial time. As the amount of commercial time on network television gradually increased, more scenes were cut. According to film historian John Fricke, these cuts started with solely a long tracking shot of Munchkin Land after Dorothy arrives there. The rest of the film remained intact. Also according to Fricke, more wholesale cutting of the film took place when CBS regained the TV rights in 1975. By the 1980s, the other excised shots included: the film's dedication in the opening credits, continuity shots of Dorothy and Toto running from the farm, establishing shots of the cyclone, the aforementioned tracking sequence in Munchkin Land, the establishing shot of the poppy field, and tiny bits and pieces of the trip to the Wicked Witch's castle. CBS, which had shown the uncut version of the film in 1956, and again from the films first telecast until 1968, finally started to show it uncut again beginning in 1985, by time-compressing it. Network airings in the 1990s were uncut and not time-compressed; the film aired in a 2-hour, 10-minute time period.
- ConnessioniEdited into Assalto al cielo (1950)
The cast could not be improved upon. The quivery-voiced, solemn-faced Judy Garland will always be Dorothy, the little lost farm girl on the road to Oz, clutching her beloved Toto (impressively portrayed himself by the female canine performer Terry, the terrier). It seems inconceivable that MGM had originally wished to cast Shirley Temple in the role, as Temple's doe-eyed, cutesy-voiced shtick would have been a catastrophic ill-fit for the tone of this picture. Conversely, Garland is perhaps the screen's quintessential woman/child; always seemingly just one step away from reaching full emotional maturity. It is her sadness that transfixes viewers to the screen, the exact same quality that made the film's most memorable Harold Arlen/E. Y. Harburg number "Over the Rainbow" into one of the most exquisite marriages between artist and song ever to be recorded.
The remainder of the cast is similarly exceptional, many of whom perform perfectly even under the most debilitating make-up and costumes. Frank Morgan is marvelously versatile in no less than five roles, the insanely energetic Bert Lahr mugs brilliantly, the handsome Jack Haley swoons sweetly, Billie Burke lends the film an ornate ethereality, and Ray Bolger's gravity-defying physical presence nearly steals the entire picture on several occasions. Perhaps most notable is former schoolteacher Margaret Hamilton's transformation into the wickedest of wicked witches, which certainly remains among the vilest and most terrifying portrayals of full-throttle evil ever to be seen. No matter how it is analyzed, scrutinized, or satirized, the 1939 production of THE WIZARD OF OZ is a top-notch example of how to turn a great story into a fabulous, milestone of a film.
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- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- El mago de Oz
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Stage 28, Sony Pictures Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, Stati Uniti(Witch's castle drawbridge; Wash and Brush Up Company; Witch's entrance hall; Witch's tower room; Yellow Brick Road montage song)
- Azienda produttrice
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- Budget
- 2.777.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 24.668.669 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 5.354.311 USD
- 8 nov 1998
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 25.637.669 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 42 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1