His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz


His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz is a 1914 film, directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and written and produced by L. Frank Baum. It stars Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Vivian Reed, Todd Wright, Pierre Couderc, and Fred Woodward.

King Krewl Raymond Russell is a cruel dictator in the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. He wishes to marry his daughter, Princess Gloria Vivian Reed, to an old courtier named GooglyGoo Arthur Smollett, but she is in love with Pon, the Gardeners boy Todd Wright. Krewl employs the Wicked Witch named Mombi Mai Wells, to freeze the heart of Gloria so she will not love Pon any longer. This she does by pulling out her heart which looks somewhere between a valentine and a bland representation of a heart without any vessels and coating it with ice. Meanwhile, a lost little girl from Kansas named Dorothy Gale Violet MacMillan, is captured by Mombi and imprisoned in her castle. However, Dorothy runs away with the now heartless Gloria, accompanied by Pon and eventually meet the Scarecrow Frank Moore. Mombi catches up with the travelers and removes the Scarecrows stuffing, but Dorothy and Pon are able to restuff him Gloria abandons them and wanders off.In an effective use of deep focus photography, they meet the lost little boy, ButtonBright Mildred Harris. The party travels to the Winkie Country next and arrives at the Tin Castle of the Tin Woodman Pierre Couderc, who has rusted solid. The Tin Woodman resides in a Tin Castle in later Oz novels, beginning in The Emerald City of Oz 1910. Mombi reaches the Tin Castle, and the Tin Woodman chops off her head however, this merely slows her down as she hunts for it and places it back on. The Wicked Witch of the East in The Tin Woodman of Oz is later described as having done a similar thing to him when he was still human. Having replaced her head, Mombi encounters Pon and turns him into a kangaroo. ........

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