The Brotherhood of the Bell

A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.

Cast

Glenn Ford

as Prof. Andrew 'Andy' Patterson

Rosemary Forsyth

as Vivian Masters Patterson

Dean Jagger

as Chad Harmon

Maurice Evans

as Harry Masters

Will Geer

as Mike Patterson

Eduard Franz

as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy

William Conrad

as Bart Harris

Robert Pine

as Phillip Dunning

William Smithers

as Dr. Jerry Fielder

Logan Field

as Thaddeus Burns

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Glenn Ford is quite effective in this conspiracy thriller, He is the middle-aged "Prof. Patterson" who is suddenly faced with quite a dilemma. Many years earlier, he had joined an almost Masonic style group called "The Bell". This is a pretty internecine organisation with tentacles spread throughout...

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