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Return to Oz

Return to Oz

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 9, 1964

Runtime

0h 51m

Genres

Animation, TV Movie, Family, Fantasy

Original Title

Return to Oz

Production Companies

Rankin/Bass Productions, Videocraft International, Crawley Films

Director

F.R. Crawley

Description

Rather than adapt a later or create a new Oz story, this production has Dorothy still in posession of the shoes, and she clings to an apple tree during a tornado which takes her back to Oz. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion (using the names created for the nearly-abstract television series, Tales of the Wizard of Oz, from which this was derived) have had their MGM gifts destroyed by the restored Wicked Witch, and the four proceed to the Wizard for help, who is ineffectual as usual.