Fortunately, the Moore-Hughes-Green film, Ella Cinders (1926) is available on a superb DVD, this time from Sunrise Silents who offer the finest Kodascope print I've ever seen in my life.
This super-popular Colleen Moore offering was one of the most borrowed films in my local Kodascope Library - so well-used in fact that the original tinted print had long since worn out and been replaced by a black-and-white dupe.
But here is the movie in all its original tinted splendor - and hardly a scratch on it! Mind you, the story is super-slight, but who cares? It's no more than an excuse to showcase Colleen as Cinderella. Admittedly, Lloyd Hughes makes a dull Prince Charming, but he is not in the movie all that much. The seven dwarfs, of course, are a delight: Harry Allen as the impatient photographer; Jed Prouty, the mayor; Jack Duffy, the chief fireman; Mike Donlin, the studio gateman; Harry Langdon, the clown; Alfred E. Green - yes, Alfred E. Green himself - as the director; and Chief Yowlachie as a cigar-smoking Indian.
And I must mention the delightfully obnoxious trio of Vera Lewis (step-mother), Doris Baker and Emily Gerdes (pushy sisters).
In short, as already noted, a must-have DVD for even the most basic collection of cinema masterpieces.
This super-popular Colleen Moore offering was one of the most borrowed films in my local Kodascope Library - so well-used in fact that the original tinted print had long since worn out and been replaced by a black-and-white dupe.
But here is the movie in all its original tinted splendor - and hardly a scratch on it! Mind you, the story is super-slight, but who cares? It's no more than an excuse to showcase Colleen as Cinderella. Admittedly, Lloyd Hughes makes a dull Prince Charming, but he is not in the movie all that much. The seven dwarfs, of course, are a delight: Harry Allen as the impatient photographer; Jed Prouty, the mayor; Jack Duffy, the chief fireman; Mike Donlin, the studio gateman; Harry Langdon, the clown; Alfred E. Green - yes, Alfred E. Green himself - as the director; and Chief Yowlachie as a cigar-smoking Indian.
And I must mention the delightfully obnoxious trio of Vera Lewis (step-mother), Doris Baker and Emily Gerdes (pushy sisters).
In short, as already noted, a must-have DVD for even the most basic collection of cinema masterpieces.