The Wizard of Oz (1925 film) The Wizard of Oz (1925 film) 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 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. The 1925 film,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (comics) home again? The series has been collected into a single volume: The Marvel Oz series has been met with very positive reviews, praising the art, character design and overall layout. IGN gave the issues of the series an average rating of 9.2 out of 10. It won the 2010 Eisners for Best Limited Series or Story Arc and Best Publication for Kids. The series has been followed by adaptations of "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz", "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" and "The Road to Oz", and "The Emerald City of Oz" by the same creative team.