Lion of Oz

Lion of Oz
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Directed byTim Deacon
Written byElana Lesser
Cliff Ruby
Based onLion of Oz and the Badge of Courage
by Roger S. Baum
Produced bySophie Chicoine
Loris Kramer Lunsford
Michel Lemire
Jacques Pettigrew
StarringHenry Beckman
Jason Priestley
Tim Curry
Dom DeLuise
Bob Goldthwait
Kathy Griffin
Jane Horrocks
Lynn Redgrave
Edited byClaudette Duff
Music byJennifer Wilson
Production
company
Distributed bySony Wonder (Canada)
Video Collection International (UK)
Release date
  • September 26, 2000 (2000-09-26) (USA)
Running time
74 minutes
CountriesCanada
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lion of Oz is a 2000 animated film set before the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It tells the story of how the Cowardly Lion, formerly part of the Omaha Circus, came to be in Oz and how he stopped the Wicked Witch of the East from getting the Flower of Oz. It is based upon the 1995 book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage by Roger S. Baum[1][2] (great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, the original author of the Oz books). It was announced by CinéGroupe and Sony Wonder and was released in 2000.

  1. ^ Simpson, Paul (2013). A brief guide to Oz. Internet Archive. London : Robinson. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-4721-0988-0.
  2. ^ Pratley, Gerald (2003). A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide, 1900 to the Present. Lynx Images. ISBN 978-1-894073-21-9.