Featuring Dennis James on The Paramount's Mighty Wurlitzer Organ
 

Director…
James Young

Writers…
Alexandre Chatrian (play)
Emile Erckmann (play)
James Young

Stars…
Lionel Barrymore as Mathias
Caroline Frances Cooke as Catharine
Gustav von Seyffertitz as Jerome Frantz
Lorimer Johnston as Hans

The play, “The Bells” (based on the French “Le Juif Polonais”) was brought to the screen in 1926. Lionel Barrymore plays a merchant who murders a Jewish entrepreneur and appropriates the dead man's fortune. Though no evidence exists to convict him, Barrymore cannot escape his own conscience due to the intervention of a mentalist. Whenever he hears the pealing of church bells, Barrymore is haunted by images of his crime and his victim.

 
Featuring a pre-film lecture by Robert Horton, film critic for KUOW-FM.