The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of the greatest movies of all time and is considered by cinephiles and critics alike to be a classic and essential movie. The movie is based on the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , who went on to write multiple other Oz books, although there is no debate that the first is by far the most popular.

The story features Dorothy ( Judy Garland ), a young girl who is whisked away to a magical yet unfamiliar land, and her desperate struggle to get back home to Kansas. As with any book-to-film adaptation, certain things are going to be added, changed, or cut out entirely. Some of these differences, however, go beyond minor tweaks. These are the biggest differences between the book and the movie versions of The Wizard o

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