The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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When I was a kid, there were five or six movies we watched as a family, every year: Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Sound of Music, and our Film of the Week, The Wizard of Oz. I’ll bet that everybody my age can, to this day, rattle off lines from six or seven of that film’s magnificent song…