The Bells

James Young, Chadwick Pictures, 1926, from the Erckmann-Chatrian play via Leopold Lewis. Lionel Barrymore as an innkeeper who murders a Polish-Jewish merchant for his gold and then has to live with a mesmerist and a set of bells. Boris Karloff in support. Silent, about seventy-three minutes. An independent. Barrymore playing conscience as a physical limp. The bells are in his head and on the soundtrack of later revivals; here they are an image.