You Probably Didn’t Know These 50 Iconic Films Were Adapted from Novels

The Wizard of Oz is a whimsical, wild adventure from all our childhoods (and if some of you are like me, that childhood also involved being afraid of flying monkeys). The first use of technicolor characterizes it, wowing audiences as it easily became a critical success.

Remembered from its switch from the dull black and white landscape of Kansas to the vivid, beautiful colored land of Oz, the film is an adaption of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel by L. Frank Baum, an equally whimsical read for any child and still holds up today.