10 Movies Nobody Saw In Cinemas (But Everyone Watches On TV)

One of the first truly iconic cinematic examples of the fabled Good vs. Evil trope, 1939's The Wizard of Oz is a film that the vast majority of cineastes have seen and adored.

When the picture was released to theaters, though, it, quite frankly, tanked. Costing $3 million to make, The Wizard of Oz actually lost $1.1 million for MGM, and was initially viewed as a calamitous failure.

Several big-screen re-releases of the film still didn't see The Wizard of Oz get anywhere close to the adoration it would later receive, and it wasn't until the 1950s that the movie started to slowly get the recognition it so rightly deserved. And why was that? Well, it was because The Wizard of Oz became an annual TV tradition.

The true success of The Wizard of Oz came when it began to air annually on CBS in the United States, with many becoming instantly enamoured upon a first watch of Victor Fleming's movie.

From the '50s onwards, this is a film that's hard not to watch each and every time you realise one of the numerous TV channels are showing it.