The Bells (1926)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: James Young
Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Caroline Frances Cooke and Boris Karloff
IMDb score:
6,4 (588)
Releasedate: 29 July 1926
The Bells plot
Mathias, an innkeeper in Alsace, murders a wealthy Pole for his gold. But the ghost of the victim of Mathias does not leave him alone and drives him mad...
Actors and actresses
Mathias
Catharine
Jerome Frantz
Hans
The Mesmerist
Christian
Annette
Baruch Koweski / Jethro Koweski
Fortune Teller
Mesmerist Announcer (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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A popular play with a somewhat anti-Semitic undertone concerns Mathias [Lionel Barrymore], a friendly, esteemed innkeeper who, due to his generosity, gets into financial problems. He can save his business if he marries off his [Lola Todd] daughter, but he stubbornly refuses. When a wealthy Polish-Jewish traveling salesman [E. Alyn Warren] visits his inn, the distraught Mathias sees an opportunity to solve his problems: he kills his guest in a remote place, steals his gold and announces that he has stolen an uncle's inheritance. Soon his conscience starts to gnaw at him, especially when the police hire a hypnotist [Boris Karloff] who can force people to tell the truth.
Barrymore is excellent in this pedantic melodrama that has a pretty dubious ending. Hypnotist Karloff seems like Caligari's (literally) big brother, including glasses, hat and black cloak, and Young keeps the momentum going.
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