Flying Monkeys

The Wizard of Oz

A uniformed servant of the Witch with wings on his back squats next to Dorothy in a crystal ball

Murder in Greenwich

A uniformed servant of the law with a winged shoulder patch stands next to Dorothy on TV news

One thing that L. Frank Baum's illustrator William Wallace Denslow appears to have gotten wrong was the color of the cap which is inexplicably held by a winged monkey in the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie.  Denslow made it silver. But in chapter 14 of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Winged Monkeys chapter, Baum says it's gold and explains its significance by way of the Queen of the Mice helping Dorothy out of a jam.

"We have lost our way," said Dorothy. "Can you tell us where the Emerald City is?"

"Certainly," answered the Queen; "but it is a great way off, for you have had it at your backs all this time." Then she noticed Dorothy's Golden Cap, and said, "Why don't you use the charm of the Cap, and call the Winged Monkeys to you? They will carry you to the City of Oz in less than an hour."

"I didn't know there was a charm," answered Dorothy, in surprise. "What is it?"

"It is written inside the Golden Cap," replied the Queen of the Mice. "But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, for they are full of mischief and think it great fun to plague us."

"Won't they hurt me?" asked the girl anxiously.

"Oh, no. They must obey the wearer of the Cap. Good-bye!" And she scampered out of sight, with all the mice hurrying after her.
 

It pays to read down to the last part of the end credits of any movie associated with Mark Fuhrman. You never know where you'll find a name that rings a big, brass bell with him and sometimes that's where it is. That's where it is in Murder in Greenwich. You see it when scrolling down the full list of cast members for the name of the epilogue reporter in the final scene with Martha standing before the TV network cameras and Fuhrman standing discretely in the background behind her. He sets up Fuhrman and Dorothy's triumphant appearance with this summary of events:

"After Fuhrman's book was published, Connecticut authorities convened a grand jury. It was then, 25 years after the murder of Martha Moxley than an indictment was handed down. Now it is official. Michael Skakel, nephew of Ethel Kennedy has been found guilty. Tonight, Michael Skakel will sleep in a prison sell. His sentence is expected to be twenty years to life."

Before you get to that actor's name, which turns out to have nothing to do with what we know of Fuhrman, you see the name of another actor playing a TV reporter. That reporter gives you the lion in "Cowardly Lion." You need that TV (crystal ball) for the Lion and the Tin Man in the witch's crystal ball. Listing one actor as TV reporter directly above the other one literally puts them together.

Just so you'll know, the actors playing those reporters are William Wallace and Charles Pierard.