One particular piece of music, heard in the opening titles, is The Awakening, a Johnny Pearson composition that was recorded in 1967 (three years after production on this film began). However, a majority of the film contains library music from other sources. "Return to the Land of Oz March" - Dorothy."If You're Gonna Be a Witch - Be a Witch" - Mombi. "The Horse on the Carousel" - Woodenhead.The original songs (which were featured on a soundtrack album released around the time of the film's television release) include the following: The arrangements and some of the film's score was by Walter Scharf. The film contains twelve original songs by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. Larry Storch as Amos, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farmworker.Herschel Bernardi as Charelsworth Pinto "Woodenhead" Stallion III.The Scarecrow makes Woodenhead the head of the Oz cavalry and knights Pumpkinhead and Dorothy and Toto leave Oz by another tornado (created by Pumpkinhead and Glinda), promising to return. Unfortunately, Pumpkinhead, another product of Mombi, also dies however, he is revived by one of Dorothy's tears. Thereafter Mombi disguises herself as a rose with poisonous thorns, which the elephants trample over and themselves disappear, prompting the Scarecrow to explain that Mombi's magic has died with her. Mombi brews a potion to shrink Toto to mouse-size so she can feed him to her cat but when startled, miniaturizes her crow and cat instead. When Dorothy opens Glinda's box, mice emerge, scaring the elephants. Woodenhead carries Dorothy and Pumpkinhead back to the Emerald City, where Mombi's elephants surprise them. One of the trees snatches it from him, but changes its fellows and itself into gold and turns them from bad to good. Mombi, having seen their progress in her crystal ball, brings the nearby trees to life whereupon Glinda sends a golden hatchet to Pumpkinhead. She then gives Dorothy a little silver box, to open only in the Emerald City, and only in a dire emergency. He declines upon being afraid of the green elephants and suggests that they ask the Cowardly Lion (voiced by Milton Berle), who promises to slay the elephants, but suggests consulting Glinda the Good Witch (voiced by Rise Stevens), who appears to them with a "Glinda Bird" that uses its Tattle Tail to show what is occurring at the palace. Dorothy, Pumpkinhead, and Woodenhead flee to Tinland to convince the Tin Man (voiced by Danny Thomas, who spoke, and Larry Storch, who sang) to help them. Mombi arrives moments later, and Toto and the Scarecrow are captured. After finding Dorothy gone, Mombi threatens that their warning the Scarecrow will not help when her green elephants "come crashing through the gate".ĭorothy and Pumpkinhead acquire Woodenhead Stallion III (voiced by Herschel Bernardi), a former merry-go-round horse (a combination of the Sawhorse from The Marvelous Land of Oz and the title character of the last Oz book of all, Merry Go Round in Oz), who takes them to the Emerald City, where Dorothy warns the Scarecrow (voiced by Mickey Rooney) about Mombi's green elephants. Pumpkinhead frees Dorothy, and they flee. Pumpkinhead sneaks into the house in Mombi's absence, and discovers her creation of green elephants, to use as her army to conquer the Emerald City. Toto chases a cat to a small cottage where Dorothy is captured by Mombi's pet crow (voiced by Mel Blanc) and Mombi (voiced by Ethel Merman) herself. They later meet Pumpkinhead (voiced by Paul Lynde), the unwilling servant of antagonist Mombi – cousin of the deceased Wicked Witches of the East and West. Leonard), whose three signs point in different directions, all marked " Emerald City". PlotĪfter a tornado in Kansas causes a loose gate to knock Dorothy unconscious, she re-appears in the Land of Oz with Toto, and encounters a talking Signpost (voiced by Jack E. Outside the United States and Canada, Warner Bros. release, Filmation partnered with a company called Seymour Borde and distributed it through a process called four wall distribution, whereupon the studio rented venues to show it and kept all of the box-office revenue. Other voices were by Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Paul Lynde, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford, Danny Thomas, Margaret Hamilton (also from the 1939 film, but now playing Aunt Em rather than the Wicked Witch of the West, who died in the earlier film), and opera singer Risë Stevens as Glinda the Good Witch.įor the film's U.S. It features Liza Minnelli voicing Dorothy (played in the 1939 film by her mother Judy Garland, and in what would have been her first major role had the film been released as originally intended). It was only after the Filmation studio had made profits on their numerous television series that it was able to finish the project, copyrighted 1971, released in 1972 in the UK and 1974 in the U.S. The movie began production in 1962, but ran out of money and was halted for nearly eight years.
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