Cinderella

"The greatest love story ever told."

1950 1h 14m EN

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7.1

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★7.1TMDB · 7,304

FamilyFantasyAnimationRomance

Synopsis

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Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

“The greatest love story ever told.”

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Cast

Ilene Woods
Cinderella (voice)
Eleanor Audley
Lady Tremaine (voice)
Verna Felton
Fairy Godmother (voice)
Claire Du Brey
(credit only) (voice)
Rhoda Williams
Drizella (voice)
James MacDonald
Gus / Jaq (voice)
Helene Stanley
(credit only)
Luis van Rooten
King / Grand Duke (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Hamilton Luske
Writers: Homer Brightman, Ted Sears, Ken Anderson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $2.9M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $264M — a 90.9× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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4 / 8

ERA

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76 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Cinderella Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Oliver Wallace. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Donald Halliday shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Ilene Woods and Eleanor Audley and Verna Felton carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Hamilton Luske directs. Oliver Wallace scores. Donald Halliday cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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1Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $2.9M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $264M — a 90.9× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
476 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
5Part of the "Cinderella Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Original score by Oliver Wallace. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Donald Halliday shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Ilene Woods and Eleanor Audley and Verna Felton carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The greatest love story ever told.".
10IMDB entry: tt0042332 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 20 themes, including "princess", "based on novel or book", "loss of loved one", "mouse".

The technical file

Original score: Oliver Wallace
Editing: Donald Halliday
Runtime: 74 min · 1h 14m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $2,900,000
Box office: $263,600,000
Return: 9090% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Cinderella (1950)

Awards

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Part of

Cinderella Collection

Cinderella is a 1950 American animated romantic musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault, it is 12th Disney animated feature film, and was released on February 15, 1950. Two direct-to-video sequels were released years later, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True in 2002 and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time in 2007.

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CinemaSerf2022-12-27
★ 7/10
A classy and stylish adaptation of the ancient riches-rags-riches tale of "Cinderella"; a young girl who finds herself little more than a skivvy in her own home. When her evil stepmother receives an invitation to the Palace for a ball in honour of the Prince; she and her two selfish and spoilt daughters pull out all the stops. They leave our heroine alone at home where she encounters an old hag. Next thing, after a gloriously colourful spree of magic spell-weaving, she is dressed in ultimate finery and heading for the palace in a glittering carriage drawn by the finest horses in the land. The rest of the story is the stuff of true fairy tale legend. The animations are, once again, magnificently detailed and the score featuring "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" is great fun too. There are, for my money, too many talking beasties - particularly the mice. The squeaky voices, slapstick comedy (especially "Gus") and accompanying wind instruments grate after a while; the characterisation of Cinderella is so heavily endowed with saccharin as to be syrupy. That said, the story is well told in an an engaging fashion with some good human characters (particularly the King) and some stunning creative imagery.
Andre Gonzales2023-05-08
★ 5/10
Great for the kids. It's a classic. I'm not into cartoon movies. I prefer acting with real people.