The Bells
Cast & Crew
Ernest C. Warde
Frank Keenan
Lois Wilson
Edward Coxen
Carl Stockdale
Albert Cody
Film Details
Synopsis
Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper who is being pressed for money, robs and murders one of his guests, a wealthy Polish Jew named Koveski. As the years go by, Mathias attains success but is secretly tormented by the sound of the sleigh bells that accompanied Koveski's approach to the inn. When his daughter Annette marries Christian, captain of the guard, there is a celebration at the inn. On the eve of Annette's marriage, hoping to avoid being entranced by a mesmerist hired to entertain the wedding guests, Mathias sneaks up to his room and dreams that the mesmerist extracts a confession from him. When he wakes up, he rushes downstairs crying "The bells, the bells!" and then falls dead.
Director
Ernest C. Warde
Cast
Frank Keenan
Lois Wilson
Edward Coxen
Carl Stockdale
Albert Cody
Joseph J. Dowling
Ida Lewis
Bert Law
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Another film based on the Alexandre Chatrian, Émile Erckmann play, also entitled The Bells, was produced by Chadwick Pictures in 1926. That film was directed by James Young, and starred Lionel Barryore and Caroline Frances Cooke (see AFI Catalog of featuer FIlms, 1921-30).
