The Bells (1931)

Directed by

Harcourt Templeman

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is haunted by a past crime involving a Polish Jew. The film follows his growing guilt and paranoia as a police investigation closes in.

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What happens

The Bells is a 1931 lost British drama film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Oscar Werndorff and starring Donald Calthrop, Jane Welsh and Edward Sinclair. It was written by C.H. Dand based on the 1867 play Le Juif Polonais by Alexandre Chatrian and Emile Erckmann, and the 1871 English translation The Bells by Leopold Lewis. The film was originally released with the only film score written by Gustav Holst. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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