Journey Back to Oz
| Journey Back to Oz | |
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Original film poster
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| Directed by | Hal Sutherland |
| Produced by |
Preston Blair Fred Ladd Norm Prescott Lou Scheimer |
| Written by |
Fred Ladd Norm Prescott Bernard Evslin L. Frank Baum (uncredited) |
| Starring |
Milton Berle Herschel Bernardi Paul Ford Margaret Hamilton Jack E. Leonard Paul Lynde Ethel Merman Liza Minnelli Mickey Rooney Danny Thomas Mel Blanc Bill Cosby (Live segments of TV Version) |
| Music by |
Walter Scharf (score and song arrangements) Jimmy Van Heusen (songs) Sammy Cahn (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Sergio Antonio Alcázar |
| Edited by | Joseph Simon |
| Distributed by | Filmation |
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Running time
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88 minutes |
| Language | English |
Journey Back To Oz is a 1972 American animated fantasy-adventure film and an official sequel to the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz produced by Filmation. It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum's second Oz novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, although Baum received no screen credit. However, the Wizard was nowhere to be found, at least in the theatrical version of the film. A television version shown in 1976 on ABC featured live-action segments starring Bill Cosby as the Wizard.
Unlike the 1939 film, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry only have one farmhand. His name is Amos (in a nod to the real name of Danny Thomas - the actor originally contracted to voice the part subsequently performed by Larry Storch), but he does not have an alter ego in Oz—unless it was the Tin Woodman, for whom Storch provided the singing voice, imitating Thomas, who did the character's speaking voice, and was credited as playing him.
The movie began production in 1962, but ran out of money and was halted for nearly eight years. It was only after the Filmation studio had made profits on their numerous television series that it was able to finish the project, copyrighted 1971, released in 1972 in the UK and the U.S. It features Liza Minnelli voicing Dorothy (played in the 1939 film by her mother Judy Garland, and in what would have been her first major role had the film been released as originally intended). Other voices were by Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Paul Lynde, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford, Danny Thomas, Margaret Hamilton (also from the 1939 film, but now playing Aunt Em rather than the Wicked Witch of the West, who died in the earlier film), and opera singer Risë Stevens as Glinda the Good Witch.
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