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Cinema Classics: The Wizard of Oz
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The premise
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On public television's Cinema Classics, the easily sidetracked host Reese De'What introduces a newly discovered alternate ending to the 1939 film. In a sepia Kansas bedroom, Dorothy wakes up and cheerfully tells Aunt Em and the farmhands Hunk, Hickory and Zeke that they were all in her dream. The family physician, Dr. Pickens, and a group of equally short townsfolk then press her to say who they were, and every answer is worse than the last: a mayor of Munchkinland, a chorus that danced on a dead witch's grave, lollipop-carrying performers ranked alongside flying monkeys. Their curiosity turns to fury, and Dorothy's attempts to smooth things over only dig her deeper, ending with a grim aside about something she glimpsed in the woods.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I'm a bad guesser. Just ask my wife.
No, no, you danced on the grave of the lady I killed.
So we're on the same level as an airborne chimp?
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Dorothy's closing remark about seeing one of the townsfolk hanged nods to the long-circulating, debunked rumor of a munchkin suicide visible in the 1939 film.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
You're watching Cinema Classics on PBS.
- 00:05
Reese De'What
Good evening, and welcome to Cinema Classics. I'm your host, Reese DeWhat? Tonight, we take a closer look at the beloved 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and a recently discovered, never-before-seen alternative ending. Why did they film this ending? I do not know. This is not why I am here. I'm a bad guesser. Just ask my wife. she asked me to guess what she learned in her exercise class and I said acceptance worst couples balloon ride ever let's take a look now at the alternate ending in which Dorothy wakes up to find out that her adventures in and eyes were all a dream.
- 00:53
Aunt Em ?
Dorothy?
- 00:54
Dorothy
There's no place like home. There's no place like home.
- 00:57
Aunt Em
Dorothy, dear, it's Aunt Am.
- 01:00
Dorothy
Auntie Am, it's you.
- 01:02
Aunt Em
You got quite the bump on the head. We thought we might lose you for a moment.
- 01:07
Dorothy
Oh, but I did go. I left, and I tried to get back for days and days.
- 01:13
Aunt Em ?
Well, there, there. You just had a bad dream.
- 01:16
Hunk
Remember me, your old pal, Hunk?
- 01:18
And what about me? You couldn't forget my face, could you?
- 01:21
Dorothy
Oh, no, but it wasn't a dream, you see. It was a place. And you were there, and you were there, and you... And you were... you were a lion, a tin man, and a scarecrow.
- 01:33
Dr. Pickens ?
And what about me? Was I there? Was... was I in your dream?
- 01:44
Aunt Em ?
Oh, hi, Dr. Pickens. Yes, Doctor, thanks for coming to check on Dorothy.
- 01:50
Dr. Pickens ?
She seems fine. So, was I in your dream? I'm trying to remember.
- 01:57
Munchkin ?
And what about us?
- 01:58
Yeah. Yeah.
- 02:00
Munchkin ?
Were we in the dream?
- 02:04
Dorothy ?
Everyone was there.
- 02:05
Hey, where's breakfast, by the way?
- 02:07
Dr. Pickens ?
Well, what was I in the dream? Was I a doctor there, too?
- 02:12
Dorothy ?
Well, I mean, does it really matter what everybody was?
- 02:15
Munchkin ?
What about me? Was I also a teacher? And was I a lawyer?
- 02:19
Dr. Pickens ?
Tell me what I was.
- 02:22
Dorothy ?
Oh, well, okay, well, actually, you were a mayor.
- 02:26
Dr. Pickens ?
Really? A mayor of where? New York? Chicago?
- 02:30
Dorothy ?
Yeah, I'd love to move off the dream stuff, but if you're insisting, it was Munchkinland.
- 02:39
Dr. Pickens ?
Munchkinland? So, what were we, funny little weirdos? To make you laugh?
- 02:45
Dorothy ?
Oh, no, no, not at all.
- 02:47
Munchkin ?
What were we wearing? what what were we wearing
- 02:53
Dorothy ?
oh
- 02:56
Dr. Pickens ?
when you close your eyes that's how you see us as your little nightmare baby dolls
- 03:06
Dorothy ?
you were all heroes in your own small way
- 03:11
Dr. Pickens ?
i wish that tornado had killed you
- 03:14
Aunt Em ?
doctor
- 03:14
Dr. Pickens ?
sorry but i'm i'm mad as hell
- 03:18
Munchkin ?
me too so mad
- 03:23
Dorothy ?
Okay, this is the exact dance you did in my dream. That's pretty adorable.
- 03:28
Munchkin ?
So we just danced for your amusement? Like fools?
- 03:31
Dorothy
No, no, you danced on the grave of the lady I killed. That was your job as part of the Lollipop Guild.
- 03:38
Munchkin ?
So we owned a lollipop factory?
- 03:40
Dorothy ?
No, you just kind of held them and kissed them and rode them around like little horses.
- 03:45
Munchkin ?
Oh, my God. So these lollipops... ...were bigger than your head?
- 03:50
Dorothy ?
yes listen it's more dignified than it sounds the munchkins were a noble race
- 03:55
Munchkin ?
race
- 03:56
Dorothy ?
i can't help what i dream you guys okay there were there were all sorts of creatures there
- 04:02
Munchkin ?
creatures
- 04:02
Dorothy ?
yeah like flying monkeys
- 04:05
so we're on the same level as an airborne chimp
- 04:08
Dorothy ?
i'm so sorry i know this all sounds strange but you were a very important part of the adventure
- 04:13
Munchkin ?
so we were with you the whole way
- 04:18
Dorothy ?
Well, no, I kind of peaced out to the woods with my dog, and I think I maybe saw one of you had hanged yourself.
- 04:23
Dr. Pickens ?
And what did you do about it?
- 04:26
Dorothy ?
Uh, good night.
- 04:28
Dr. Pickens ?
Oh, let's get out of here. Your house is a dump, by the way.
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