| The Wiz Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The Four Crows torment Scarecrow (Michael Jackson), making him repeat the Crow Commandments and sing the Crow Anthem. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Kashka Banjoko, Derrick Bell, Michael Jackson, Roderick-Spencer Sibert, Ronald 'Smokey' Stevens Director: Sidney Lumet MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Rob Cohen, Kenneth Harper, Burtt Harris, Berry Gordy Screenwriter: L. Frank Baum, William F. Brown, Joel Schumacher Film Description: Sidney Lumet's The Wiz is the film version of the popular Broadway musical that retells the events of L. Frank Baum's classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz through the eyes of a young African-American kindergarten teacher who's "never been below 125th Street." Leaving a large family dinner to chase her dog into a snowstorm, Dorothy (Diana Ross) is swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to the land of Oz -- which looks suspiciously like a skewed version of the run-down Manhattan of the late '70s. Landing on top of the Wicked Witch of the East, the puzzled Dorothy is greeted by munchkins who peel themselves from a graffiti mural and sing to her about the Wiz (Richard Pryor), a powerful wizard living in Emerald City who can help her get home. On her journey down the yellow brick road, she encounters a garbage-stuffed scarecrow (Michael Jackson) in a junkyard, a broken-down tin man (Nipsey Russell ... |
