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Return to Oz is a 1985 dark fantasy film released by Walt Disney Pictures, co-written and directed by Walter Murch. It stars Nicol Williamson , Jean Marsh , Piper Laurie , and Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Gale in her first screen role.
The Nome King was portrayed on film by Nicol Williamson in 1985's Return to Oz which was based loosely on the books Ozma of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz. In that film, his rock-like nature was taken to the extreme via Will Vinton's Claymation. His personality and characterization largely stays true to how he is portrayed in the original ...
In the 1985 film Return to Oz, Dorothy returns to Oz long after being sent back home to Kansas from her first visit; she finds the yellow brick road in ruins by the hands of the evil Nome King who also conquered the Emerald City. She defeats him and the city is restored to its original glory, and presumably the road is as well.
'Return to Oz' (1985) It's mildly hilarious that Disney's first foray into Oz is pure nightmare fuel. The film begins with a young Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) escaping from a mental hospital, after ...
The 1985 film Return to Oz was based on The Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. Disney owned the rights to adapt all of Baum's books except The Wizard of Oz, but this did not matter because by 1985 both The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz were in the public domain.
He and Aunt Em have a farmworker named Amos (voiced by Larry Storch) who does not have an alter ego in Oz. In the 1980 animated TV special Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz, Uncle Henry is voiced by Charles Woolf. In the 1985 film Return to Oz, Uncle Henry's wife
In the 1985 movie Return to Oz, the character of Mombi (portrayed by Jean Marsh) was combined with head-exchanging Princess Langwidere from the third book in the series, Ozma of Oz and she is renamed Princess Mombi. Here, she is portrayed as a dark-haired, deranged and evil middle-aged sorceress.
The Wonderful Game of Oz, a board game published in 1921 by Parker Brothers. [44] The Wizard of Oz, a 1985 illustrated text adventure game for Apple II, Commodore 64 and DOS systems, [45] [46] which combined elements of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz. It was published by Windham Classics, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software.