The Wizard of Oz (1925 film)
| The Wizard of Oz | |
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Still from a 1924 publication | |
| Directed by | Larry Semon |
| Written by | Larry Semon L. Frank Baum, Jr. |
| Based on | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum |
| Produced by | Larry Semon |
| Starring | Larry Semon Dorothy Dwan Oliver Hardy Curtis McHenry Bryant Washburn Josef Swickard Charles Murray |
| Cinematography | Frank B. Good H.F. Koenekamp Leonard Smith |
| Edited by | Sam S. Zimbalist |
| Distributed by | Chadwick Pictures |
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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, 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.