Well, there's a wizard in this, and there's a place called Oz. And there's someone named Dorothy who lives with her aunt and uncle in Kansas, and a scarecrow, tin man, and cowardly lion. And that is where any similarities to L. Frank Baum's classic children's book end.

Larry Semon (okay, stop laughing), a popular movie comic of the day, rewrote the story as a vehicle for himself. In this version, Dorothy is not a Kansas farm girl whose only desire is to get home...she's the rightful princess of Oz who was smuggled away as a baby and left with a Kansas farm couple when the Ozian royal family was overthrown. So her goal here is to STAY in Oz once the tornado's gotten her there. You gotta admire a Wizard of Oz movie that can't even get the basic thrust of the story right. (Needless to say, Dorothy is aged up in this version so nearly every male figure that isn't Uncle Henry can drool over her, and so she can end up with a handsome prince at the end.)

The only other thing this movie deserves props for is introducing the idea of "farmhands double as Oz residents" that the 1939 movie took and ran with. But in this version, the three farmhands somehow end up carried away to Oz in the tornado with Dorothy, and disguise themselves as the famous Oz characters once they're there.

The Scarecrow farmhand is Larry Semon himself, the Tin Man farmhand is Oliver Hardy (yes, that Oliver Hardy), and the one who briefly disguises himself as the Cowardly Lion is...

...well, just in case you didn't already want to slap this movie, this farmhand is African-American, and is presented as lazy and cowardly.

And is named "Snowball."

And his actor is billed as "G. Howe Black."

And is eating watermelon in his first scene.

In short, this whole thing would be nothing but a Rifftrax field day from beginning to end.