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Dorothy, heir to the Oz throne, must take it back from the wicked Prime Minister Kruel with the help of three farmhands.Dorothy, heir to the Oz throne, must take it back from the wicked Prime Minister Kruel with the help of three farmhands.Dorothy, heir to the Oz throne, must take it back from the wicked Prime Minister Kruel with the help of three farmhands.
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Oliver Hardy
- Woodsman
- (as Oliver N. Hardy)
- …
Spencer Bell
- Cowardly Lion
- (as G. Howe Black)
- …
Rosalind Byrne
- Herald Trumpeter
- (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Wanda Hawley
- Undetermined Role
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Jean Johnston
- Little Girl in open & close
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMany theatres that booked the film never received it because its production caused Chadwick Pictures to go bankrupt, and distribution ceased long before it was intended to.
- GoofsThe plane that brings Kruel's emissaries from Oz to Kansas is a triplane in midair but a biplane when it lands.
- Quotes
Prime Minister Kruel: Do your stuff, Wizzy!
- Alternate versions2005 DVD release on Warner Brothers (as a bonus feature with the 1939 version) alternates between sepia tone-colored images and blue-tinted images.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Wiz on Down the Road (1978)
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All Aboard for Broadway!
After its 1902 tryout in Chicago, the stage play with songs by Paul Tietjens and Baum opened on Broadway in January 1903, running 293 performances before hitting the road, and returning to Broadway for four or five months in 1904. It then toured until 1911, when Baum permitted a host of amateur companies all over America to stage the play. In many areas, it became an annual event.
As Mordaunt Hall noted in his rave review in The New York Times, this version is not based on Baum's 1900 novel but on his 1902 stage musical. Many of the strange changes and eliminations in both the story and the characters were made by Baum himself. In fact, aside from the obvious enlargement of Larry Semon's role with the addition of a goodly number of comic routines, this movie is a pretty faithful transcription of the play.
True, some of the best jokes (the business with packing cases, for example), are worked to exhaustion. The main problem I find, however, is not that the stage play and movie have been converted into slapstick, but that the movie without the songs is often rather dull, despite the best efforts of Oliver Hardy and Charlie Murray.
As Mordaunt Hall noted in his rave review in The New York Times, this version is not based on Baum's 1900 novel but on his 1902 stage musical. Many of the strange changes and eliminations in both the story and the characters were made by Baum himself. In fact, aside from the obvious enlargement of Larry Semon's role with the addition of a goodly number of comic routines, this movie is a pretty faithful transcription of the play.
True, some of the best jokes (the business with packing cases, for example), are worked to exhaustion. The main problem I find, however, is not that the stage play and movie have been converted into slapstick, but that the movie without the songs is often rather dull, despite the best efforts of Oliver Hardy and Charlie Murray.
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- JohnHowardReid
- May 1, 2008
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- Tomasín en el reino de Oz
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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