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'''Wizard of Oz''', 1939 movie starring [[Judy Garland]], [[Frank Morgan]], [[Ray Bolger]], [[Bert Lahr]], [[Jack Haley]], [[Billie Burke]], [[Margaret Hamilton]] and [[Charley Grapewin]] from the book by [[L. Frank Baum]] Here is [http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/wizoz.txt one script]. I cannot attest for it's accuracy, but it seems fairly good. =Detailed Plot= ==Part 1== The story opens with Dorothy (Judy Garland) running home with her faithful dog Toto. She excitedly tries to interest her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry Gale in the terrible story of how Miss Almira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton) hit Toto with a rake because he gets in her garden and chases her cat. Next we meet the three farmhands Hunk, Zeke, and Hickory (Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley), each of them try to help her out in their own way. Hunk (Ray Bolger) tells her to use her brains, Zeke (Bert Lahr) tells her to have courage. (A cut portion had Hickory telling her to have some heart, and have pity on the "sour-faced old maid" Miss Gulch. Another cut portion has Hickory working on a wind machine that will stop tornadoes.) Now Dorothy falls in the pig pen and is rescued by Zeke. Both Dorothy and Zeke are freaked out by this, but Auntie Em is a bit blase, telling Dorothy to "find a place where you won't get into any trouble!" So now Dorothy sings her signature song ''Somewhere Over The Rainbow''. Next we see Miss Gulch riding her bicycle to the Gale's farm where she shows them an order allowing her to take Toto to the sheriff, because she says Toto bit her. Dorothy is very upset and runs crying to her room. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Nh3tCHxEQ part 1] ==Part 2== Toto however escapes from Miss Gulch's basket without her noticing, and runs back to Dorothy. Dorothy knows that to protect Toto, she will have to run away. So she and Toto run away and on her journey meets Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a fortune teller. He tells her that in his crystal ball he can see her Aunt Em crying, and possibly having a heart attack. Dorothy gets upset and wants to run back home. On the way home, a tornado appears and threatens the farm. They all go into the storm cellar, but Dorothy arrives too late. She tries to get into the storm cellar but the door is locked and they can't hear her banging on the top. So she goes back into her room, the window blows out and hits her in the head knocking her out. When she awakes she is apparently up inside the tornado and sees a bunch of things flying by the window, including Miss Gulch on her bicycle, who then turns into a witch riding a broomstick. The force of the tornado diminishes and the house falls and lands but Dorothy and Toto are unhurt. Dorothy opens the front door, and now for the first time, the movie which had so far been in black-and-white, is changed to full-color. Dorothy has landed in a garden with gigantic flowers, a lily-pond, a stream and bridge, some small houses and a bright-yellow brick road. Dorothy walks around the garden but no one else is there. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaYLpm5DI4&feature=related Part 2] ==Part 3== This part opens with her famously misquoted line: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." When her back is turned, some heads pop up from the garden, then dart back down. A ball of light comes closer, then turns into Glinda, the Witch of the North (Billie Burke). It turns out that the Gale house has dropped onto and killed, the Wicked Witch of the East. Now Billie starts the next song "The Munchkinland Song (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead)". The Munchkins, who are all little people, now come out of hiding and dance about singing. The Mayor welcomes her, the Coronor certifies that the witch is truly dead. The Lullaby League and the Lollipop Guild both welcome Dorothy. (Of course it's never really made clear how the Munchkins which until now had been so oppressed by this evil witch, suddenly live in a beautiful garden and have bright, colorful clothes.) At any rate now appears the sister of the dead witch, this one called the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton). She threatens Dorothy, especially after Glinda causes the Ruby Slippers to disappear from the dead witch and appear on the feet of Dorothy. "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!" She disappears in a cloud of fire and red smoke. Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cAyPJkiQAk&feature=related Part 3] ==Part 4== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu1EInG3PLA&feature=related Part 4] ==Part 5== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8RhueFc9sY&NR=1 Part 5] ==Part 6== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjpkIozdgYw&feature=related Part 6] ==Part 7== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsBlsOxPqI&feature=related Part 7] ==Part 8== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2LBFafFDAI&feature=related Part 8] ==Part 9== Watch it on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGuUVlWgH5g&feature=related Part 9] =Continuity Issues= ==CI Part 1== When Dorothy is rescued from the pig sty, her dress is completely clean. Just after Dorothy is rescued from the pig sty, Auntie Em shows up with crullers and in part she says to Hickory "I saw you working on that contraption", then Hickory says "Some day they are going to erect a statue to me in this town". This exchange '''makes no sense''', since the entire backdrop that the "contraption" is a machine that can stop tornadoes, has been cut. ==CI Part 2== When Dorothy returns to the house during the tornado, she tries to get into the cellar but the door is bolted and they can't hear her. She is carrying Toto and the picnic basket. She goes inside and the next frames show her in her bedroom with Toto but no picnic basket. Where did she put it! When Dorothy is up inside the cyclone, she sees Miss Gulch riding her bicycle, who then turns into a witch on a broomstick. When the house lands, it lands on the witch, and then Dorothy and later the Munchkins sing about how "the witch to satisfy an itch when riding on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch", so the house landed on her. So the witch who was killed by the house was Miss Gulch/Witch of the East, and it's her sister that is the Witch of the West. The entire window frame blow out and hit Dorothy on the head, but later we see part of the window back in place again. For a people just-recently-oppressed by the evil Witch of the West, the Munchkins sure seem to live in an idyllic garden of beautiful flowers and water and have very colorful clothes. =Premature Plotlines= Hunk (Ray Bolger) who will later appear as the "Scarecrow" says: "Now lookit Dorothy, you ain't using your head about Miss Gulch. Think you didn't have any brains at all." He then gives her a good idea and says "Well your head ain't made of straw you know!" Zeke (Bert Lahr) says "Listen kid, are you going to let that old Gulch heifer try to buffalo ya? She ain't nothing to be afraid of, have a little courage that's all." In the script, but cut from the movie, Hickory (Jack Haley) tells Dorothy to have some heart for that "sour-faced old maid." When Miss Gulch shows up to take Toto to the sheriff, she wants to put him in a picnic basket, and Dorothy in an outburst says "Oh you Wicked Old Witch". Of course Toto jumps out of the unlocked basket. Much later the Wicked Witch, when she captures Toto, also puts him in the same picnic basket. And of course he jumps out again since the basket is unlocked. '''Lock the dang basket!''' Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan) who later will be the "Wizard", is a fraud, claiming to be a fortune teller and to have known the "Crowned Heads of Europe". Similarly the Wizard is a fraud. [[Category:Wizard of Oz]] [[Category:Movies and Television]]
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