Directed by: Victor Fleming
Starring: Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, Billie Burke, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton
After the terrible cyclone, Dorothy finds herself lost in a strange, magical and technicolour world.
There she meets the miniscule and enchanting Munchkins and the Good Witch of The North, Glinda who tells Dorothy that the only way to get home is to visit the Emerald City, where she must ask the Great Wizard of Oz for help.
Along the yellow-brick road to the Emerald City, Dorothy and and her faithful little dog Toto meet many strange and frightening creatures.
The Scarecrow, the Cowardly lion, and the Tin Man join her adventure, each one hoping to meet the Great Wizard.
Dorothy has a final showdown with the Wicked Witch whose sister was unfortunately flattened when Dorothy's house landed in Munchkin Land after the Cyclone.
Revealing mistake: When the Wicked Witch scares the Munchkins in Munchkinland, where Dorothy lands, she disappears into a cloud of smoke she creates. But you can see her sneak down into a trap door below. [As a sidenote to this entry, Margaret Hamilton was hospitalized for severe burns after a take of this shot (not the final one used) when the stage elevator got stuck and the explosion went off.] (00:30:45)
Wicked Witch: Ohhh... You cursed brat! Look what you've DONE! I'm melting! Melting! Oh... What a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!
Trivia: The "tornado" was a thirty-five foot long muslin stocking, photographed with miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields.
Question: It is implied strongly in this movie that water makes witches melt, and this is spoofed in other media. I've only ever seen this referenced to wicked witches. Does water make good witches, such as Glinda, melt too?
Answer: In the original book, water caused the wicked witches to melt away because they were so old and shriveled that all the fluid in their bodies had long since dried away. Meanwhile, the film Oz: The Great and Powerful instead implies that the Wicked Witch of the West is weak against water due to being a fire-elemental witch, which could also be the case for this incarnation, meaning it wouldn't apply to other witches like Glinda (whose element in both films appears to be ice) or even the Wicked Witch of the East (whose powers are never shown in this film, but were electricity-based in Oz the Great and Powerful).
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Answer: In all likelihood, probably not. Water is often depicted and represents purity, and cleansing. It flows smoothly, is beautiful, clear, and responsible for life on Earth. Everything the Wicked Witch is not. Where as the good Witch is pure and of a true heart. So it makes sense that something so evil and impure as the evil witch would be effected by the purest substance there is, yet not harm the good witch because she is good.
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