Ripping Good Yarns: Second Hall of Fame Movie Winner!

Star Wars was our 2012 addition to the Ripping Good Yarn Movie Hall of Fame.

And now, the results for our 2013 entrant into the Hall of Fame are complete.  A healthy increase in the number of voters does my heart good, and I am happy to announce the voting results as follows:

Jurassic Park  0%

Lord of the Rings 2%

Back to the Future 2%

North by Northwest  5%

Casablanca  5%

Schindler's List  6%

It's A Wonderful Life  9%

Raiders of the Lost Ark  11%

Gone With the Wind  26%

And our 2013 winner, with 34% of the vote (drum roll, please).......

The Wizard of Oz!!!

This phenomenal movie was not an immediate box office success.  coming out in the greatest year for movies ever, 1939 (which included Gone With the Wind).  It became a national treasure when it was repeated on national television starting in the late fifties.  I grew up watching it every year, and as a young child, I thought they were slightly changing the movie every year...oh. look this year they've added talking trees!  It was a combination of changing childhood focus, and editing for commercials and such.

It has held the grip of generations since.  It is no longer the once a year phenomenon it once was.  But thanks to DVRs and streaming, it still is probably one of the most watched movies of all time.

Flying Dragon Arts Center did the play version three years running in Waycross, and this year WACT (Waycross Area Community Theatre) is doing it this February.  And no how often it is done, people still come in droves to see it.

Thank you, Ripping Good Yarn fans for your votes.  And if your favorite didn't win?  Frankly, my Rippers, 2014 is anothuh year!