so far this Christmas season we've watched Wizard of Oz a couple of times...maybe the best movie ever made...the original Grinch who stole Christmas, and the original Willy Wonka...got other favorites recorded so we'll get to see them too...
The 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz is a great movie, but the ending is a copout (the whole thing was just a dream—how lame!). The 1925 version starring Oliver Hardy (before he teamed up with Stan Laurel) is much better.
**Wizard of Oz**
I’m rather convinced that Wizard of Oz author Baum got his idea from John Bunyan’s Christian allegory, “Pilgrim’s Progress”, which was first published a couple of centuries before Oz. The parallels are numerous.