The Bells | |
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Directed by | W. J. Lincoln |
Written by | W. J. Lincoln |
Based on | the play The Bells by Erckmann-Chatrian adapted by Leopold Lewis and W. J. Lincoln |
Produced by | William Gibson Millard Johnson John Tait Nevin Tait |
Starring | Arthur Styan Nellie Bramley |
Cinematography | Orrie Perry[4] |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Tait's Pictures |
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Running time | 4,000 feet[5] |
Country | Australia |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The Bells is a 1911 Australian feature-length silent film directed by W. J. Lincoln. It is based on the famous stage melodrama by Erckmann-Chatrian, adapted by Leopold Lewis, which in turn had been adapted for the Australian stage by W. J. Lincoln before he made it into a film.[6][7]
It is today considered a lost film.
It was one of several films Lincoln made with the Tait family, who had produced The Story of the Kelly Gang.[8] According to Lincoln's obituary in The Bulletin it was one of Lincoln's best films.[9]
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