Classic Oz media In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Continue reading Top Ten: Roger Ebert’s Great Movies →. This film has pretty much been forgotten and it's easy to see why. I got to see this on the big screen last year and it really was a memorable moment. But she’s pretty hilarious in it, and I do enjoy the movie as a whole, which is a pretty great excuse for a lot of solid singing and dancing, and some fair to middling comedy. Great Moments in Movies- “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Dorothy Enters ‘Oz’, Eleanor Parker Blogathon, Part 2: “Never Say Goodbye” (1946), Eleanor Parker Blogathon- “The Very Thought of You” (1944): A Plea to Warner Archive, Ingrid Bergman Blogathon- “Cactus Flower” (1969), Alfred Hitchcock Blogathon-“The Lady Vanishes” (1938), Esther Williams Blogathon- “Neptune’s Daughter” (1949). Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Mildred Natwick, Mel Stuart But for me, the "Coffee Time" number alone is worth the price of admission. Starring:  •   The winged monkeys started out as free creatures living in the jungles in the Land of Oz.They were a rather carefree but mischievous bunch, until their king, as a prank, tossed a richly dressed man into a deep river, ruining his velvet costume. The traditional view is that each new work should be a fresh focus of power through which former streams of beauty, emotion, and reflection are directed. The costume consists of a hat, silk scarf, blue woolen shirt and coat with brass buttons, riding skirt and leather gauntlets. I saw this movie on tv and loved it. Brought to You by a Former Nick-at-Nite and Current TCM Junkie! or Create A New Account ►, Alfred Hitchcock  •   While a film may not have received critical acclaim, if it fulfills the aforementioned criteria, then for me, it’s a classic. Dreams tend to be bizarre and filled with symbolism, which was the point of that sequence. I have this much higher on my list than it appears on Flickchart’s global list (where it’s near the bottom of Garland’s filmography), partially because it’s not that well known and I doubt many Flickcharters have seen it, but it also seems to be relatively maligned even among classic movie fans.  •   Unable to add item to List. Ebert did not rank these films; in fact, he added them only after he had a chance to reevaluate them and write about them, so there’s no hierarchy here at all. Mildred Natwick, Lillian Roth, Lucie Lancaster, Gil Lamb, Hans Conried, Lillian Hayman & Goldye Shaw Monster Rally Hans Conried & Alice Pearce I rank according to what I like the best, prioritizing personal preferences and emotional connections, so my Flickchart is in no way meant to be objective. The criterion is, not whether the associations are called up, but whether the spirits invoked by this kind of verbal incantation are charged with personal power by the magician who speeds them about their new business.”, “There’s an old story, borne out by production records, about [producer] Arthur Hornblow Jr. deciding to exert his power by handing [Billy] Wilder and [Charles] Brackett’s fully polished draft [of the screenplay for 1939’s Midnight] to a staff writer named Ken Englund. She then gave the winged monkeys the cap as their own, breaking the curse and setting them free. It is so over the top that it works as it is part of Dorothy’s dream. Movies are made up of a series of moments. At the very end of this film is the number "Coffee Time" where Astaire and Bremer pull off a simply magnificent dance in 5/4 time on a floor painted to look three dimensional surrounded by exotically costumed dancers. Chapters: 1 - 0:00 2 - 7:42 3 - 21:25 4 - … All Glinda would’ve had to do is tell Dorothy to click her heels together and say “there’s no place like home” and BAM. No Dorothy, you are most definitely not in Kansas anymore. Ahead of its time in tone and visual style and largely under-appreciated at its release, YOLANDA AND THE THIEF is a treasure for fans of bold, inventive film making. Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie, Mildred Natwick, Based-on-Theatre  •  Drama  •  Family Drama, Frank Perry And oh, it does, because this is a murder mystery that crosses the Hammett-style detective story (Hammett actually wrote the novel the film is based on) with a touch of Agatha Christie, and a whole lot of ’30s-style witty comedy. Change ). Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2012. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It’s over the top, but Garland seems to be having a ball with it. He and Mr. Astaire played well off each other in their comedic performances. After Dorothy Gale kills the Wicked Witch, she put on the cap, unaware of its power, and when she learns its power she uses it to make the winged monkeys to carry her and her companions to the Emerald City. Some moments are exciting, others are sweet. This view is adopted, and perhaps carried to excess, by writers like T.S. In this reading, Glinda merely wants Dorothy to do her dirty work for her to get rid of her rival. Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mary Nash, Mildred Natwick, Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2017. The costume consists of a hat, silk scarf, blue woolen shirt and coat with brass buttons, riding skirt and leather gauntlets. It turns out that she is the heir to a rich land own by her family. This scene also sets up one of the most famous lines in film: “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.”. She reaches the age where she has to leave the church to go to her home to run the family business. The ones he identified as Great Movies are likely only a fraction of what he would consider the Greatest Movies of All Time, and possibly not even the top fraction.  •    •   It's a fantastic plot to fleece the winsome mark, until love gets other ideas. Englund asked Hornblow what he was supposed to do with the script, since it looked good enough to him. What a delightful and entertaining movie! Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In the film, the cap looks almost identical to the original artwork by Denslow in the book. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the monkeys are apparently intelligent enough to obey commands, but do not speak, though they do in the book. The moment in a film that sets the film apart from others. Dorothy steps out of her crashed home into the wonderful world of Oz. Musicals were great ways to do this, since they could just cram in musical numbers featuring different people. Starring: The story is about a young girl who was basically raised in a church. Lucille Bremer was one of Astaire's best dance partners, almost rivalling even the incomparable Vera Ellen, who danced with him in "The Belle of New York" (1952). I am also a member on the TCM Forums at forums.tcm.com.