Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303905471 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6303905471 Label: Hollywood Select Video Manufacturer: Hollywood Select Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hollywood Select Video Release Date: October 26, 1995 Running Time: 84 minutes Sales Rank: 104350 Studio: Hollywood Select Video Theatrical Release Date: 2025
Amazon.com: This version is not the famous 1939 version starring Judy Garland. It is the 1925 silent version.
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Rating: - The Wizard of...Oz?
An interesting movie to watch for anyone who wasn't or was aware of this silent "Oz" movie. However this movie does not include the yellow brick road, the munchkins, the ruby slippers, the talking trees, the dog Toto or the witch. The farmhand who would become the Tin Man is kind of a bad guy trying to win Dorthy's heart, like Brutus would Olive. Apparantly Dorthys uncle is also a bad guy who chases the farmhand, who would become the scarecrow, around the farm for what feels like half an hour. It's all a bunch of Charlie Chaplin slapstick comedy with the bad guy not being able to catch the hero of the scene. A weird twist occurs when, in Oz, the three farmhands, who also travel to Oz with Dorthy, dress up in disguises, in an attempt to hide from the soilders of oz and pretend to be the infamous characters that Dorthy meets (in the book and 1939 version) along the way, altering (or destroying) Dorthy's experience ... Read More
Rating: - Not a masterpiece, but not a trainwreck either
I'm rather embarrassed that I believed all of the negative hype about this film (how it was racist, unfunny, and just in general a bad movie) without ever having even seen it to be able to judge it for myself. Hearing what a lot of other people have had to say about any given product can give one a good general idea about what to expect, but that doesn't compare to actually seeing it for yourself and being able to form your own opinion. I found myself rather liking this film and being very impressed by Larry Semon, whom I'd long been interested in anyway. One wishes that more of his films survived and were easily-accessible instead of in archives, museums, and out of print videos. It's not fair to judge him as a comedian and his entire body of work based on this film, which came rather late in his career and thus isn't entirely reprensentative of what he was capable of.
Rating: - Joke
Although I love the actual film I think it could have done with out the narrator. I mean, it's a silent film with swome annoying lady reading to you. Her voice made me want to scratch my eyeballs out. It was like listening to a book on tape, and completely makes a joke out of the movie all together. But I would also like to say that just because a few of the previous customers didn't realize that this film was made in 1929 which would make it silent and means it is NOT the film starring Judy Garland doesn't mean that it was bad. Also I'm disappointed that others think they have educated themselves on Frank L. Baum or any of his books. The 1939 Wizard of Oz only involves some of the stories since there are over 14. Besides Baum helped with this film, meaning he was creating a story there himself. Just because they didn't pick up a book and act out every word doesn't mean it wasn't Baum's creation. This film was another ... Read More
Rating: - the worst
the only intersting part was the sword fight with kynd and kruel.It was very sad. dorthy is so shallow.
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