The Wizard of Oz (1925)

Directed by

Larry Semon

Genre

fantasy film, silent film, children's film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy learns a secret about her family just before a tornado sweeps her and the farmhands into the magical land of Oz. There she is proclaimed a lost princess and her companions are transformed into a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion.

whimsicallightheartedsilent-eracomedicfantasticalold-fashionedplayfuladventurous

What happens

The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who has the lead role of a Kansas farmhand, later disguised as the Scarecrow. This production stars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a lion. It is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and less well-known than the celebrated 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum's work, The Wizard of Oz. In the film, Dorothy Gale, a Kansas farm girl, is told about her Uncle Henry not being her uncle after all. Suddenly, a tornado blows into Kansas and whisks the farmhands and Dorothy to Oz, where Dorothy is declared to be long-lost Princess Dorothea by Prime Minister Kruel. In Oz, the farmhands are disguised as a scarecrow, a tin man and a lion. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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