FEATURE | The Best (and Worst) of Oz

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‘Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is the eighteenth film set in Oz. Or the seventeenth, if you discount 1978’sThe Wiz, which doesn’t exactly take place there, but rather in a fantastical Oz-fitted New York City. Or maybeDorothy’s Return is actually the nineteenth, if you count the 1921 silent film adaptation which never actually made it to movie screens.

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The point is, over the last century, filmmakers have been drawn back to L. Frank Baum’s magical source novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; there’s something fundamentally cinematic about Dorothy, Toto and her colourful troupe of friends skipping down a yellow brick road to an emerald-green city. Here’s a brief look at the most successful big-screen adaptations – and a few of the very worst.’

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Check out my feature on Oz portrayed on screen, to coincide with the release of Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, at HeyUGuys (click quote above or image below).

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Follow the editor at @GaryGreenScreen

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