The Wizard of Oz (1925) | Directed by Larry Semon - Full Movie

The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who also performs in the lead role as a Kansas farmhand and later in the story 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, costars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman in a portion of the film, and Spencer Bell briefly disguised as a less "cowardly" Lion than in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum's work. In the film, Dorothy Gale (Dorothy Dwan), a Kansas farm girl is told a story about Uncle Henry (Frank Alexander) not being her uncle after all. Suddenly, a tornado lurks to Kansas, and whisks the farmhands and Dorothy to Oz. Where Dorothy is discovered as Princess Dorothea, by Kruel (Josef Swickard), to his reign of Oz, one disguised as a scarecrow, a tin man and lion.

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, Spencer Bell
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: April 13, 1925
Running time: 93 minutes, 85 minutes (cut edition)
Country: United States
Language: Silent (English intertitles)