Ella Cinders (The Film Detective Restored Version) drana In the Spirit of Christmas

In the Spirit of Christmas holiday special

When a famous American writer accepts a quest from a Czech emigrant to bring him back unique Yiddish manuscripts

like her dad

requests an exorcism with her two children by her side

a razor-wielding female prowls the night in her search for victims and for answers to her haunting nightmares

Ella Cinders (The Film Detective Restored Version) drana In the Spirit of ChristmasSilent film legend Colleen Moore ("The Scarlet Letter" ) plays the eponymous Ella Cinders in this contemporary reimagining of the classic Cinderella fairy tale directed by the inimitable Alfred E. Green ("Baby Face" ). Moore is delightful as the lowly Ella, a household drudge who sees an opportunity to escape her miserable life when she wins a beauty contest and is promised an acting job in Hollywood. Thanks to her knack for physical comedy""perhaps