On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:02 AM, danny burstein wrote:
... will be shown on Turner Classic Movies, first thing Monday, 27-December-2010, at 12:00 AM (aka 00:00 hours, or something). Keep an eye out for the munchkin hanging in the background... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016544/
Though people going in should be warned: it's a really bad version. Please don't judge star Larry Semon solely from this; he's able to be much funnier and way less unsettling than this presents, even if the version was pretty much his fault. He suffered enough for it.
The 1925 version is often credited with introducing the idea of the people in Kansas being duals to the people in Oz, but that's really not what happens.
If you get the chance to see any of the silent Oz movies that L Frank Baum actually had a hand in, do that: they raise that High Silent Film Weirdness to levels that make Georges Melies say, ``whoa, hey, that's a little much.'' (eg: _His Majesty, The Scarecrow Of Oz_.)
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