| Lion of Oz | |
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| Directed by | Tim Deacon |
| Written by | Elana Lesser Cliff Ruby |
| Based on | Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage by Roger S. Baum |
| Produced by | Sophie Chicoine Loris Kramer Lunsford Michel Lemire Jacques Pettigrew |
| Starring | Henry Beckman Jason Priestley Tim Curry Dom DeLuise Bob Goldthwait Kathy Griffin Jane Horrocks Lynn Redgrave |
| Edited by | Claudette Duff |
| Music by | Jennifer Wilson |
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| Distributed by | Sony Wonder (Canada) Video Collection International (UK) |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Countries | Canada United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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.
- ^ Simpson, Paul (2013). A brief guide to Oz. Internet Archive. London : Robinson. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-4721-0988-0.
- ^ 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.