Am I The Only One Who Noticed the Gun in Wizard of Oz?

PomeroySays
4 min readFeb 9, 2022

What???!!!! I have seen this movie 10,000 times over my lifetime but never saw the gun!!

How is this real? I went immediately to Amazon to rent the movie. I had to see for myself. See for yourself at 1:14.

The scene in question happens immediately after Dorothy, the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow leave Emerald City after meeting the Wizard of Oz. In the haunted forest, Dorothy and company suddenly armed to the teeth. The Tin Man is holding a giant pipe wrench and his signature axe, the Lion has a bug net and bug spray, while the Scarecrow has a walking stick and a silver six-shooter. There is no explanation for why the characters are suddenly brandishing weapons, which vanish in the following scenes just as quickly as they arrived.

This beloved movie has a lot of weird stories associated with it. Time magazine even published an article about it:

But despite its commercial success, The Wizard of Oz is seen by some as cursed. There were so many serious accidents on set that those Oscar-nominated special effects almost cost cast members their lives, from the two actors playing winged monkeys crashing to the ground when the wires that hoisted them up in the air broke, to the Wicked Witch of the West’s stunt double Betty Danko injuring her left leg when the broomstick…

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