I'm surprised no one has mentioned how much "The Wizard of Oz" had borrowed from this film.
A little girl goes to a fantasy dreamland where she meets characters who are dopplegangers of the people she knows in the real world.
And in the end, she's in bed, with a compress on her head, surrounded by loved ones.
The only difference is in this film we go back and forth between the fantasy and the reality, where in "Oz" we don't know it's a dream until the end.
(The back and forth device reminded me of an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in which in one reality she's fighting vampires, but in another reality she's in a mental hospital being treated for having delusions that she's a vampire slayer.)
Either way, this is obviously an extremely influential film.
A little girl goes to a fantasy dreamland where she meets characters who are dopplegangers of the people she knows in the real world.
And in the end, she's in bed, with a compress on her head, surrounded by loved ones.
The only difference is in this film we go back and forth between the fantasy and the reality, where in "Oz" we don't know it's a dream until the end.
(The back and forth device reminded me of an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in which in one reality she's fighting vampires, but in another reality she's in a mental hospital being treated for having delusions that she's a vampire slayer.)
Either way, this is obviously an extremely influential film.