The Wizard of Oz DVD 1939 Óz, a csodák csodája / Directed by Victor Fleming / Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton & The Munchkins / Extra: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Making of a Movie Classic

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AUDIO: English 5.1, German 1.0, Spanish 1.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian, English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Novergian, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese, Hebrewm Polish, Greek, Czech, Turkish, Icelandic, Croatian, French, Italian

Total Runtime: 98 minutes

English Summary:

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in cinema history, it is the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Directed primarily by Victor Fleming (who left production to take over the troubled production of Gone with the Wind), the film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton with Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick, Terry (billed as Toto) and Singer's Midgets as the Munchkins.

Legendary for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and memorable characters, the film has become an icon of American popular culture. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind, also directed by Victor Fleming. It did win in two other categories: Best Original Song for "Over the Rainbow" and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. While the film was considered a critical success upon release in August 1939, it failed to make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget, not including promotional costs, which made it MGM's most expensive production at that time.

The 1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on the CBS network reintroduced the film to the public; watching it became an annual tradition and, according to the Library of Congress, it is the most seen film in movie history. It was among the first 25 films that inaugurated the National Film Registry list in 1989. It is also one of the few films on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The film is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.

The Wizard of Oz is the source of many quotes referenced in contemporary popular culture. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but uncredited contributions were made by others. The songs were written by Edgar "Yip" Harburg (lyrics) and Harold Arlen (music). The musical score and the incidental music were composed by Stothart.

Hungarian Summary:

Az Óz, a csodák csodája (eredeti cím: The Wizard of Oz) 1939-ben bemutatott amerikai musical, amely L. Frank Baum népszerű meseregényének filmváltozata. (Az eredeti mű címe magyarul is azonos, de Óz, a nagy varázsló címmel is megjelent, eltérő fordításban.)

A forgatókönyvet Noel Langley, Edgar Allan Woolf és Florence Ryerson írta, a filmet Victor Fleming, Richard Thorpe és King Vidor rendezte, a zenéjét Herbert Stothart és Harold Arlen szerezte, a producere Mervyn LeRoy volt, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer készítette és forgalmazta. Amerikában 1939. augusztus 25-én, Magyarországon első szinkronnal 1960. december 8-án, majd második szinkronnal 1977. január 13-án mutatták be a mozikban, a harmadik szinkronnal 1992. december 25-én az MTV 2-n vetítették le a televízióban, a negyedik szinkronnal viszont 2000-ben adták ki VHS-en.

A film 1939-ben készült, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Larh és Jack Haley főszereplésével. Victor Fleming alkotása az Óz-könyv legsikeresebb filmváltozata. A két Oscar-díjjal jutalmazott film világhírűvé tette az akkor még csak 17 éves Judy Garlandot. A film sok mindenben eltér a könyvtől, sok benne az újítás.

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SPECIAL FEATURES ON DVD

INTERACTIVE MENUS * SCENE ACCESS * TRAILERS * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Making of a Movie Classic * Oz history * Oz Afterlife * Behind the Scenes * Out-taks / Deleted scenes * Audio Supplements