My favorite movie as a child, and it still holds up today!

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2006)

THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
directed by: Victor Fleming
starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton.
plot: Dororthy Gale (Judy Garland) is a country girl living a boring life, hoping for something exciting to happen to her. One fateful day, she runs away from home and a twister sweeps her away to a magical land called Oz. There, she accidentally kills a witch and the witch's sister, the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) is after her for revenge. Glinda (Billie Burke), a good witch, gives Dorothy a pale of ruby slippers which can help her in an unknown way. When she finally becomes homesick, she goes on a quest to find the Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan), the one man who she believes can help her return home, while she makes some friends along the way.
thoughts: Spending my first six years in Chittenango, New York (the birth place of L. Frank Baum, the author of the novel), I grew to love the movie THE WIZARD OF OZ, since it was advertised all over the town, and there is still yellow painting on the sidewalks (although it is sadly fading away). Now that I am 17, I viewed this film again, and I still love it.
It has a great cast that really knows how to act, dance and sing. It has a great director behind the camera. It has great music. It has a great story. And I love the idea of mixing black and white (the Kansas scenes) and color (the Oz scenes).
Even though this film is almost 70 years old, it still has no flaws (to me, anyway) and every parent should introduce this film to their children.