| The Wizard of Oz | |
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| Directed by | Larry Semon |
| Written by | Larry Semon L. Frank Baum, Jr. |
| Based on | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1900 story by L. Frank Baum |
| Produced by | Larry Semon |
| Starring | Larry Semon Dorothy Dwan Oliver Hardy Curtis McHenry Bryant Washburn Virginia Pearson Charles Murray |
| Cinematography | Frank B. Good H.F. Koenekamp Leonard Smith |
| Edited by | Sam S. Zimbalist |
| Distributed by | Chadwick Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes 85 minutes (cut edition) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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 disguised as the Scarecrow.
This production, which is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, stars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a less "cowardly" Lion than in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum's work, The Wizard of Oz.
In the film, Dorothy Gale (Dorothy Dwan), a Kansas farm girl, is told about her Uncle Henry (Frank Alexander) not being her uncle after all. Suddenly, a tornado blows into Kansas and whisks the farmhands and Dorothy to Oz, where Dorothy is discovered as Princess Dorothea by Prime Minister Kruel (Josef Swickard). The farmhands are disguised as a scarecrow, a tin man and lion.[1]
- ^ Swartz, Mark Evan (2002). Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939. Baltimore, Maryland: JHU Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0801870927. Retrieved July 20, 2015.