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The Wizard of Oz(1939)
Released
1939 · FILM

The Wizard of Oz

A Kansas farm girl must navigate a magical realm and confront a wicked witch to rescue her beloved dog and find her way home.

“We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!”

Directed by
Victor Fleming
Written by
Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
102 min
AdventureFamilyFantasy
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

Dorothy travels to a magical realm where she befriends a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man; together they follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Wizard in order to request the things each lacks most in their lives. Their progress is opposed by the Wicked Witch of the West.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 37

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Blanche SewellShot by Harold Rosson

Box Office

1939 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$33.8M

Budget$2.8M
Worldwide gross$33.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

2019681 theaters
$3.4M($4.4M today)
1999404 theaters
$248K($493K today)
19981,882 theaters
$21.3M($43.2M today)
Total re-release
$25.0M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Das zauberhafte Landde
  • Der Zauberer von Ozde
  • Zauber von Ozde
  • El mago de Ozes
  • Le Magicien d'Ozfr
  • Il mago di Ozit

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