Though it's completely different actor, the Wheelers in this film, to me at least, sound exactly like Disney character Stitch (who was actually first developed by his voice role Christopher Sanders for an unsuccessful kid's book pitch two years before this special released). And it really weirds me out/amuses me.
I've first watched this special not too long ago, and I really like it. Plus, I've also read the original "Ozma of Oz" book, and that one's my favorite in the original Baum series.
Lot, Abraham's nephew, moved away from Abraham, and Hebron, and took his family and cattle, and flocks, and went to the cities in the plain on the east coast of the Dead Sea, the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and lived there with them. But the people of Sodom were idolatrous immoral sinners who practiced sodomy and homosexuality, and God told Abraham and Lot that He was going to destroy these evil cities with fire and brimstone (sulphur) from above, and sent the three angels to Lot in Sodom to rescue him and his family after Abraham had bargained with the Lord God on their behalf. So Lot and his wife and family all departed from Sodom and God destroyed the cities with fire and brimstone from above, but Lot's wife, who was told by the angels not to look back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, turned her gaze upon them, and God cursed her and turned her into a pillar of salt. This happened about 1900 B.C. in Genesis Chapter 19.
And as Abraham sat at his tent in Mamre near Hebron, three angels came to visit him. The three angels were all played by one star actor, Peter O'Toole.
And since Sarah could not bear waiting all those years for her son of promise to be born, she told Abraham to take her Egyptian handmaid Hagar, and lay with her, and conceive a son, named Ishmael, who was to be the father of the Arab race we know today. Then when the boy was old enough to walk, Sarah cast out Hagar and her son in resentment, and Hagar was wandering in the desert. But God had mercy on her, and gave her water from a gushing spring to drink that appeared in the desert, and they were refreshed, and did not perish in the wilderness.
A touching scene of Love with the elder Abraham, portrayed most perfectly by George C. Scott, and Ava Gardner as Sarai (Sarah), and their great test of love and faith waiting for the promised birth of their son of promise, Isaac, at Hebron, at the Oaks of Mamre.
Abram, or Abraham, was born and raised in Ur of the Chaldees in southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, circa 2,000 B.C. and was told by God to go to a place He would show him, and he moved himself and his family and flocks to the land of Haran, now known as Armenia, and from there he moved on to where God told him to stop and rest, and he pitched his tents at the Oaks of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, and a village grew up there around him, called Hebron (the town of the Hebrews). It is now known as Hevron, in modern Israel (Judea) known to some as the West Bank area of Palestine today. Abraham was called by God there, and he took his only son Isaac (Yitzhak) to offer him as a sacrifice to God on the peak of the Mountain Moriah, when God tested his faith, and stopped him. Mount Moriah is now known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, called the Haram al Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) by the Muslims. Noah lived to be 175 years old, and died in Hebron, and was buried in the Cave of Machpelah, in Hebron, a place he had purchased to bury his wife Sarai (Sarah) who predeceased him.
The Tower of Babel was a huge ziggurat built of mud bricks on the plain of Shinar in Mesopotamia by the First Babylonian Empire at the time of Sumer and Akkad, circa 2500 B.C. It was at least as high as the Great Pyramid of Gizah in Egypt, about 480 feet high. It was built by the first King of Babylon, Nimrod (or Ni-Merodach in old Chaldean) for his wife, Queen Semiramis (or Zemir-Amit in Chaldean).
In Technicolor, and Dimension 150 Super Technirama wide screen 70mm and 6-track analog Stereo sound. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis. Directed by John Huston. Released November 24, 1966 in the USA by 20th Century Fox.
Majestic music to show Noah and his family opening the Ark and letting the animals loose to replenish the Earth, with the Rainbow overhead in the blue sky.
Excellent special visual effects of the Ark's voyage on the oceans as it navigates itself as Noah and his family of 8 are all safe inside with the animals, with this music adding to the visuals quite effectively.
In this movie, they don't show the Ark accurately as it is described in the Bible, in Genesis chapter 6. It looked more like a modern plank ship than this primitive timber vessel. It was 520 to 530 feet long, by 60 feet wide, by 60 feet high with three levels.
Excellent, remarkable music score featuring Noah playing the shofar (ram's horn) to call all the animals, and they all obeyed him, for God put it into their minds to follow and obey him. Director John Huston as Noah is superb.
Glorious music describing God's Creation of Adam, the first Man, in the Hebrew tradition. God created Man in His Own Image, from the dust of the Earth. Male and Female He created them, and called their name Adam (the Adamic Race, the ancestors of the Hebrews).
