The Bells is a 1931 British drama film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Oscar Werndorff and starring Donald Calthrop, Jane Welsh, and Edward Sinclair.
Mathias Calthrop, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered mans spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad.The victims brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience. ........
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