Wizard of Oz Summary Kills Again
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Young Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas subcontract to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her abode and fulfill the others' wishes.
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When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy Gale and her domestic dog, Toto, are whisked away in their business firm to the magical Country of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Route toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and on the way they meet a Scarecrow who wants a brain, a Tin can Man who wants a center, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage. The Magician asks them to bring him the Wicked Witch of the W'southward broom to earn his help.
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After a tornado hurls through Kansas, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, are swept abroad from their habitation to the colorful and vibrant Land of Oz. In social club to observe their style back home, they must embark on a journeying to the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz resides. On the mode, they become accompanied by a Scarecrow who wants a encephalon, a Tin Man who wants a middle, and a Cowardly Lion who wants backbone. They are hopeful that the Wizard volition exist able to fulfill their wishes, simply not far backside them is the Wicked Witch of the West, who is out for revenge on Dorothy after she accidentally killed her sister, the Wicked Witch of the East.
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- Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) is an orphaned teenager who lives with her Auntie Em (Clara Blandick) and Uncle Henry (Charley Grapewin) on a Kansas farm in the early on 1900s. She daydreams about going "over the rainbow" after Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton), a nasty neighbor, hits Dorothy's dog Toto (Terry) on the back with a rake, causing Toto to bite her. Miss Gulch shows up with an order to accept Toto to the sheriff to be euthanized, just Toto jumps out of the handbasket on the back of Miss Gulch's bicycle and runs back to Dorothy. Fearing that Miss Gulch, who does not know that Toto has escaped, will return, Dorothy takes the dog and runs away from home. She meets an itinerant phony fortune teller, Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), who immediately guesses that Dorothy has run away. Pretending to tell her fortune and wishing to reunite Dorothy with her aunt, he tells her that Auntie Em has fallen ill from worry over her.
Dorothy immediately returns domicile with Toto, only to discover a tornado budgeted. Unable to reach her family in their tempest cellar, Dorothy enters the firm, is knocked unconscious by a loose window, and apparently begins to dream. Along with her house and Toto, she's swept from her sepia-toned world to the magical, beautiful, unsafe and technicolor land of Oz. The tornado drops Dorothy's firm on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her. The witch ruled the Land of the Munchkins, little people who think at first that Dorothy herself must exist a witch. The Wicked Witch of the Westward (Margaret Hamilton once more), who is the sister of the dead witch, threatens Dorothy. Just Glinda (Billie Burke), the Adept Witch of the Due north, gives Dorothy the dead witch'south enchanted Blood-red Slippers, and the slippers protect her. Glinda advises that if Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas, she should seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald Metropolis. To get there, Dorothy sets off down the Yellowish Brick Road.
Earlier she's followed the road very far, Dorothy meets a talking scarecrow whose beloved wish is to take a encephalon. Hoping that the magician can assist him, the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) joins Dorothy on her journey. They come upon the Tin can Woodman (Jack Haley), who was caught in the pelting and is so rusty he can't move. When they oil his joints and then he can walk and talk again, he confesses that he longs for a heart; he too joins Dorothy. As they walk through a dense wood, they run across the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), who wishes for courage and joins the quest in the hope that the wizard will give him some. Dorothy's three friends resemble the three farmhands who work for Dorothy's aunt and uncle back in Kansas.
On the way to the Emerald City, Dorothy and her friends are hindered and menaced by the Wicked Witch of the West. She incites trees to throw apples at them, then tries to set the scarecrow on fire. Inside sight of the city, the witch conjures up a field of poppies that cause Dorothy, Toto, and the king of beasts to fall comatose. Glinda saves them past making it snow, which counteracts the effects of the poppies.
The iv travelers marvel at the wonders they discover in the Emerald City and accept time to freshen upwardly: Dorothy, Toto and the King of beasts have their hair done, the Tin Woodman gets polished, and the scarecrow receives an infusion of fresh straw stuffing. As they emerge looking clean and spiffy, the Wicked Witch appears on her broomstick and skywrites "Surrender Dorothy" in a higher place the urban center. The friends are frustrated at their reception by the "great and powerful" Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan once again) -- at first he won't receive them at all. When they finally meet him (the doorkeeper lets them in because he had an Aunt Em himself), the Wizard declines to help them until they bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. Daunted but adamant, they set off over again.
The witch sends winged monkeys to attack Dorothy's party before they accomplish her castle; the monkeys snatch Dorothy and Toto and besprinkle the others. When the witch finds that the Red Slippers can't exist taken confronting Dorothy'southward volition equally long as the daughter is alive, she turns her hourglass and threatens that Dorothy will die when it runs out. Meanwhile, Toto has escaped and run for assist. Dressed as guardsmen, the Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow sneak into the castle and complimentary Dorothy. They're discovered before they can escape, withal, and the witch and her guards corner them and set up the Scarecrow on fire. Dorothy douses him with a pail of water, splashing the witch by accident. The h2o causes the witch to atomize ("I'm melting!"). The guards are happy to let Dorothy have the witch'southward broomstick, and Dorothy and her friends return to the Emerald City.
The wizard isn't pleased to see them once more. He blusters until Toto pulls aside a curtain in the corner of the audience chamber to reveal an old human who resembles Professor Marvel pulling levers and speaking into a microphone -- the so-called wizard, as the Scarecrow says, is a humbug. He's abashed and apologetic, but quickly finds ways to help Dorothy's friends: a diploma for the Scarecrow, a medal of valor for the Lion, and a testimonial heart-shaped sentry for the Tin can Man. And so he reveals that he'due south from Kansas himself and came to Oz in a gasbag balloon, in which he proposes to take Dorothy home.
The sorcerer appoints the Scarecrow, Tin Homo, and King of beasts rulers of Oz in his absence. Just as the balloon is well-nigh to take off Toto runs after a cat and Dorothy follows him. Unable to stop, the wizard leaves without Dorothy. But Glinda appears and explains that Dorothy has always had the power to become abode; Glinda didn't tell her before because Dorothy wouldn't take believed information technology. Behest her friends a bawling skillful-bye, Dorothy taps her heels together 3 times, repeats "In that location'southward no identify like domicile," and the Ruby Slippers take her and Toto back to Kansas.
Dorothy wakes up in her own bed with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry fussing over her. Professor Marvel and the farmhands Hunk (Ray Bolger again), Hickory (Jack Haley again), and Zeke (Bert Lahr once again) terminate by to run across how she's doing. She raises indulgent laughter when she tells them most Oz, merely she's and then happy to be home she doesn't mind that they don't believe her. Miss Gulch is never mentioned once more.
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