The Bells: Lionel Barrymore, Caroline Frances Cooke, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Lorimer Johnston, Edward Phillips, Lola Todd, Laura Lavarnie, Boris Karloff, E. Alyn Warren. At 3:25: [Henri Rolland, Albert Préjean, Madeleine Rodrigue, Myla Seller, Stacquet, Martinelli]. The bells is from the play by Erckmann-Chatrian, which was inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Originally produced as two individual motion pictures in 1926 and 1922 respectively.
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The bells (1926, 67 min.) / I.E. Chadwick presents; adapted and directed by James Young -- At 3:25 (1922, 21 min.) / Diamant Film Co. presents; a Red Seal picture; [written and directed by René Clair; produced by Henri Diamant-Berger].
Summary:
In The bells a kindly, but ambitious innkeeper murders a wealthy Jewish traveller to settle his debts and is haunted by a hypnotist in a traveling carnival. His conscience is tormented by an apparition of the dead man seeking a confession of his own. At 3:25 is a surreal fantasy in which an eccentric scientist freezes the population of Paris with a mechanical ray of his own invention.
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