Fulfilling the taste of moviegoers to watch rare cinema classics in widescreen, the weekly film screening at the American Center will show interesting and entertaining series of movies under the title ‘Great literature’.
As the first movie Oscar awarded 1939 children’s fantasy movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’ will be screened at 6 pm on Tuesday, October 6 at theAmerican Center, Colombo 3.
Directed by Victor Fleming based on the 1900 children’s novel ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ by L. Frank Baum, the musical adventure and family classic made Judy Garland a star for her heartfelt performance as Dorothy Gale.
Dorothy Gale is an orphaned young girl unhappy with her drab black-and-white existence on her aunt and uncle’s dusty Kansas farm. Dorothy yearns to travel “over the rainbow” to a different world, and she gets her wish when a tornado whisks her and her little dog, Toto, to the Technicolorful land of Oz.
Having offended the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), Dorothy is protected from the old crone’s wrath by the ruby slippers that she wears. At the suggestion of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North (Billie Burke), Dorothy heads down the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where dwells the all-powerful Wizard of Oz, who might be able to help the girl return to Kansas. |
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