Return to Oz: 7th Draft Screenplay - 1984

[RETURN TO OZ]. Return to Oz. Based on stories by L. Frank Baum. Screenplay by Walter Murch and Gill Dennis. 7th Draft 1984. [Los Angeles: Walt Disney Pictures, 1984]. 8.5" x 11" sheets, brad bound; 115 sheets of four different colors of paper, printed on one side with two unpaginated sheets and sheets numbered to 109 with four numbered out of sequence, being: 88A, 91A, 99A, and 102A. Each sheet dated " 7.2.84." Slightest wear around edges, else clean crisp sheets.

7th Draft of the Screenplay for the 1985 Disney film "Return to Oz." Walter Murch's Return to Oz (1985) was the first attempt at a big budget Hollywood film based on Baum's books since the beloved 1939 MGM musical. Drawing mainly on the second and third books in Baum's Oz series, The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), and Ozma of Oz (1907), it also was heavily influenced by the MGM film having characters appear as normal people in Kansas then as fantastical characters in Oz and making use of MGM's copyrighted Ruby Slippers (for which Disney had to pay a special fee to MGM, as in the book Dorothy had Silver Shoes, not Ruby Slippers). Front wrapper bears the title "OZ," but the final title, "Return to Oz", is on the title page. This 7th Draft screenplay is fairly close to the completed film; with only some of the dialogue and bits of business omitted in the final version.