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5 stars 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. Of interest is the appearance of Boris
Karloff, in Caligariesque makeup as the mesmerist. ~ Hal
Erickson, Rovi