Metrograph

Judy Garland provides the big, plaintive voice as Dorothy, while companions Tin Man (Jack Haley), Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) are pure knockabout vaudeville fun, in this criminally entertaining musical adaptation from L. Frank Baum’s treasured series of Oz books, which leaps from bleak black-and- white Kansas to ruby slippers-and-yellow brick Technicolor. Why? Because, because, because, because.

Distributor: Warner Bros.