Film

The Mesmerist

8.0200316mDrama

Director: Bill Morrison
Year: 2003

Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.

Top cast

Lionel Barrymore

The Innkeeper (archive footage)

Boris Karloff

(archive footage)

Laura La Varnie

(archive footage)

E. Alyn Warren

(archive footage)

Directed by

Bill Morrison

Written by

James Young, Bill Morrison, Emile Erckmann

Produced by

Bill Morrison