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Lion of Oz is a canadien film of genre Animation released in USA on 24 november 2000 with Henry Beckman

Lion of Oz (2000)

Lion of Oz
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Lion of Oz is an animated film set before the 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, how he stopped the Wicked Witch of the East from getting the Flower of Oz. It is based upon the book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, the original author of the Oz books).

Synopsis

The Lion simply called "Lion" is a circus lion, displayed in a cage where everyone's afraid of him. His only friend is Oscar Diggs, the Circus Balloonist, who lets Lion out of his cage and takes him up on his balloon. While they're up there, Oscar gives Lion a Badge of Courage for coming up on his balloon, but they are soon caught in a storm. Lion falls from the balloon and Oscar can't stop it from leaving and carrying him off. He reminds Lion that "true friends can never be lost" before he is carried away.

Actors

Henry Beckman

(Narrator (voice))
Jason Priestley

(Lion (voice))
Tim Curry

(Captain Fitzgerald (voice))
Dom DeLuise

(Oscar Diggs (voice))
Bobcat Goldthwait

(Silly Ozbul (voice))
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