The Wizard of Oz
Also known as Le Sorcier d’Oz in France
(1925) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6200 feet
Directed by Larry Semon

Cast: Larry Semon [the Scarecrow], Dorothy Dwan [Dorothy], Oliver Hardy [the Tin Woodsman], Spencer Bell [the Cowardly Lion], Charles Murray [the Wizard of Oz], Bryant Washburn [Prince Kynd], Mary Carr [Auntie Em], Josef Swickard [Prime Minister Kruel], Virginia Pearson [Lady Vishuss], Frank Alexander [Uncle Henry; and the Prince of Whales], Otto Lederer [Ambassador Wikked], Frederick Ko Vert [the phantom of the basket], G. Howe Black [Snowball], William Hauber, William Dinus, [?] Wanda Hawley?, [?] Chester Conklin?

Chadwick Pictures Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis. / Scenario Larry Semon and L. Frank Baum Jr. (Frank J. Baum), from the novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Assistant directors, Robert Stevens and William King. Cinematography by H.F. Koenekamp, Frank B. Good and Leonard Smith. Intertitles by Leon Lee. Edited by Sam S. Zimbalist. / Premiered 7 February 1925. Released 19 April 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production began shooting in October 1924.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Keywords: Authors: L. Frank Baum - Falls

Listing updated: 4 March 2007.

References: Film viewing : FilmDaily-1926 p. 59; Kerr-Silent pp. 151-152, 154, 319; Limbacher-Feature p. 279; Shipman-Cinema p. 86; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy pp. 29, 44; Weaver-Twenty p. 319.

Home video: DVD.