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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)
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- 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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Here's another weird mess that Hardy got himself into!
We all know "The Wizard of Oz", right? Well, we know Victor Fleming's 1939 musical adaptation. But then there's Larry Semon's 1925 version, which has to be one of the single weirdest movies ever made. Part of this is because there's little similarity to the version that everyone knows: no Toto, no witches, no Munchkins and no Yellow Brick Road. Instead, there's a bunch of slapstick humor (complete with a clean-shaven Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodsman). And unfortunately, there's a black man named Snowball.
While watching the movie I made a bunch of MST3K-style comments at it - most of them unrepeatable here - just because of how over-the-top it was. For example, people jump from high altitudes and survive. It's one of those what-were-they-smoking-when-they-came-up-with-this movies. You have to see it to believe it. The only analogy is the Soviet version of "Mary Poppins" (yes, there was one).
I've never read Frank Baum's novel. I hope to eventually. I understand that the more famous movie adaptation is closer to the novel. Whatever the case, you can't say that you've truly seen "The Wizard of Oz" until you've seen this version!
While watching the movie I made a bunch of MST3K-style comments at it - most of them unrepeatable here - just because of how over-the-top it was. For example, people jump from high altitudes and survive. It's one of those what-were-they-smoking-when-they-came-up-with-this movies. You have to see it to believe it. The only analogy is the Soviet version of "Mary Poppins" (yes, there was one).
I've never read Frank Baum's novel. I hope to eventually. I understand that the more famous movie adaptation is closer to the novel. Whatever the case, you can't say that you've truly seen "The Wizard of Oz" until you've seen this version!
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- lee_eisenberg
- Dec 29, 2014
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- Tomasín en el reino de Oz
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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