| Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy: Alone Either One Is Hilarious - Together They Are a Riot! Slightly different, but every bit as entertaining as the MGM film starring Judy Garland, is this wonderful 1925 Silent version. And, as always, good triumphs over evil. A Toymaker tells a bizarre story about how the Land of Oz was ruled by Prince Kynd, but he was overthrown by Prime Minister Kruel. Dorothy learns from Aunt Em that fat, cruel Uncle Henry is not her uncle, and gives her a note due on her eighteenth birthday, which reveals she is actually Princess Dorothea of Oz, and is supposed to marry Prince Kynd. She, Uncle Henry , and two farmhands are swept to Oz by a tornado. Snowball, a black farmhand soon joins them after a lightning bolt chases him into the sky. They land in Oz, where the farmhands try to avoid capture. Semon becomes a scarecrow, Hardy briefly disguises himself as a Tin Woodman, and Snowball is given a Lion suit by the Wizard, which he uses to scare the Pumperdink guards. Starring: Oliver Hardy
Larry Semon
Dorothy Dwan |
