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Return to Oz

Year:
Duration:
113 min | Finland:110 min (uncut) | Finland:109 min (cut)
Genres:
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
IMDB rate:
6.7
Director:
Walter Murch
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1985-06-21
Filming Locations: Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $25,000,000
Gross: $11,137,801 (USA) ( 1985)
Cast
Actor
Character
Fairuza Balk
Fairuza Balk
Return to Oz
Nicol Williamson
Dr. Worley
Jean Marsh
Nurse Wilson
Piper Laurie
Aunt Em
Matt Clark
Uncle Henry
Michael Sundin
Tik-Tok
Tim Rose
Tik-Tok
Sean Barrett
Tik-Tok
Mak Wilson
Billina
Denise Bryer
Billina
Brian Henson
Jack Pumpkinhead
Stewart Larange
Jack Pumpkinhead
Lyle Conway
Gump
Stephen Norrington
Gump
Justin Case
Scarecrow
John Alexander
Cowardly Lion
Deep Roy
Tin Man
Emma Ridley
Ozma
Sophie Ward
Mombi II
Fiona Victory
Mombi III
Pons Maar
Lead Wheeler
Rachel Ashton
Wheeler
Robbie Barnett
Wheeler
Ailsa Berk
Wheeler
Peter Elliott
Wheeler
Roger Ennals
Wheeler
Michele Hine
Wheeler
Mark Hopkins
Wheeler
Colin Skeaping
Wheeler
Ken Stevens
Wheeler
Philip Tan
Wheeler
Rob Thirtle
Wheeler
Bruce Boa
Policeman
Tansy
Toto
Cherie Hawkins
Polychrome
Kevin Hudson
Munchkin (uncredited)
Jon Jacobs
Cage Carrier (uncredited)
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Trivia
In the late 1950s the Disney studio did toy with the idea of making an "Oz" movie of its own using some of the Mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club (1955), but they decided to make Babes in Toyland (1961) instead which (ironically) starred Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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When Gump, Jack Pumpkinhead and Tick-Tock where turned into ornaments, the rock-like Nome King changed in appearance to a more organic looking being.
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When Dorothy is in the hospital in Kansas, she is kept in room 31 by Nurse Wilson (Mombi). Later, when Dorothy is in Oz, Mombi's "original" head is kept in cabinet 31.
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Goofs
After strapping Dorothy onto the stretcher, the two "wheelers" change places between shots.
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Jack Pumpkinhead's neck thickness varies throughout the film, it constantly goes from the thin stalk-like neck (puppet) to a thicker, shorter, more normal neck (actor in a suit).
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When interrogating the lead wheeler, Tik-Tok claims that been a machine he cannot be sorry or happy; yet at the Nome king's mountain he sheds tears suggesting he is capable of emotion.
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Quotes
Lead Wheeler: Please, let me go. Please, please, let me go. Pleeaase, let me go! Let me go!
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Gump: If I had a stomach, I *know* I would be sick!
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Tik-Tok: I have always valued my lifelessness.
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Faq
Q
Is this a sequel to the 1939 MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz?"
A
Well, it is and it isn't. In a promotional interview at the time, director Walter Murch said: "I like to think of it as a sequel to one side," meaning that it is a sequel to the generic story of The Wizard of Oz, but not of the 1939 version.One can argue that it ISN'T a sequel because it presents an entirely different look and feel from the original; characters and places are very different, it is not a musical, and the entire tone is much more sad/somber. The fact that Dorothy looks so much younger and references things we never saw in the old movie (such as Lunch Pails and the Deadly Desert) all suggest that this film takes place in a different continuity.Janet Maslin, of the New York Times, said that this movie is more of a grim variation of the 1939 film rather than a sequel. She wrote that this film, has a story derived largely from L. Frank Baum's The Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, where a pint-sized Dorothy has been brought to the screen with a different set of sidekicks. Rather than traveling to Oz with Toto, Dorothy is this time accompanied by a different Baum character, Billina the Chicken. Once there, she made a whole new set of friends.However, one can also argue that it IS a sequel because it picks up the story immediately afterward and has many stylistic similarities to the 1939 film. For example, Return To Oz begins with a 20-minute prologue in Kansas (an element in the 1939 movie but not of the original books). While Dorothy is younger and acts a little different, her braids and clothing resemble Judy Garland's interpretation of the character. The story's choice to have the Oz characters foreshadowed as characters in Kansas is an obvious nod to the 1939 film. Finally, Return To Oz follows Wizard of Oz's choice of Ruby Slippers, as opposed to the Silver Shoes of the original books. So while Return To Oz may take place in a slightly different continuity than the 1939 movie, it never directly contradicts it, as having Silver Shoes would have done.A film that is more closely related to the 1939 film is the 1974 animated film, Journey Back to Oz. That film is a musical and the tone is more happy. Also, elements of the 1939 film are included in Journey Back to Oz like Dorothy having a head injury before finding herself in Oz. Like MGM's film, Journey Back to Oz also seems to indicate that Dorothy's experience in Oz was a dream as well. In that film, the character Glinda also appears and she is called the Good Witch of the North like in the 1939 film rather than the Good Witch of the South like in the books. The trailer for the film also said that Liza Minnelli, who voiced Dorothy in the film, was recreating the role that her mother, Judy Garland, played in the MGM film.
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