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Oz – A Rock ‘n’ Roll Road Movie (1976)

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clip Dorothy meets the Good Fairy

Original classification rating: M. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) wakes up in a strange town after a car accident. In a dress shop run by the 'Good Fairy’ (Robin Ramsay), she learns she has killed the 'town hood’. The Fairy rewards her with a beautiful pair of red shoes. The trucker (Ned Kelly), brother of the dead hood, threatens revenge.

Curator’s notes

The film was made in the middle of the glam-rock period in rock 'n’ roll, when androgyny was very fashionable — although you might wonder how many customers the Good Fairy would get in a town full of zombies. The death of the town hood corresponds to Dorothy’s house landing on the wicked witch of the west in The Wizard of Oz.