You Remember Ellen (1912) User Reviews (3)

I've Got a Terrible Memory

[boblipton · 5/10 · 20 September 2013]

This film version of the Thomas Moore poem about a beautiful peasant girl who weds a stranger and goes wandering with him -- to a castle where it turns out he is the rich lord and master. It has a very poor actress in Gene Gauntier as Ellen. Yes, she is quite lovely, but the second shot of her has her lounging like Anna Magnani in MAMA ROMA. In addition, the soppy sentimentality that characterized all the Kalem movies that director Sidney Olcott shot in Ireland -- this is from the second batch -- annoys me.

However, George Hollister, besides starring as her husband, also shot this movie, and the cinematography is beautiful. The movie is very watchable because of that and if you have the sentimentality that I apparently lack, you should enjoy this.

You Remember Ellen review

[JoeytheBrit · 5/10 · 26 June 2020]

Sidney Olcott and his Kalem players return once more to the Auld Sod and produce this adaptation of Thomas More's poem. It's a slight tale, and gaps in the narrative suggest some key scenes may be missing, but George Hollister and Gene Gauntier make a likeable couple, and the locations are pretty.

It is a thoroughly delightful feature picture that can be shown anywhere

[deickemeyer · 4 October 2016]

The Irish hills and dales, with more intimate views of roadside, croft and meadow, give perfect setting to this poetic Irish story of Ellen, "pride of the village," whom Tom Moore wrote. Miss Gene Gauntier and Mr. Hollister play the leads, impersonating the simple, true-hearted maiden on the one hand, and the Lord of Rosna Hall, who married her in a lowly disguise, on the other. It is very well handled. We, ourselves, think Lord Rosna the peasant he seems until the end, when he and his young wife take refuge from a storm in the hall and she finds herself a lady in the land. We commend it heartily. It is a thoroughly delightful feature picture that can be shown anywhere. It would be very acceptable at any kind of private exhibition. These Irish pictures are all pretty well photographed; this as well as the others. - The Moving Picture World, March 16, 1912