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The Brotherhood of the Bell is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Wendkos released in USA on 17 september 1970 with Glenn Ford

The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)

The Brotherhood of the Bell
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Released in USA 17 september 1970
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating70% 3.5367853.5367853.5367853.5367853.536785

The Brotherhood of the Bell is a 1970 made-for-television movie produced by Cinema Center 100 Productions and starring Glenn Ford. The director Paul Wendkos was nominated in 1971 by the Directors Guild of America for "outstanding directorial achievement in television". David Karp wrote the screenplay based on his novel that had been previously filmed as a Studio One episode in 1958.

The film depicts a successful economics professor, Dr. Andrew Patterson, who discovers that an elite fraternity he joined as an undergraduate is really a callous banking and business cabal that obtains wealth and power for its members through nefarious practices.

Synopsis

Professor Andrew Patterson (Glenn Ford) returns to his alma mater, the College of St. George in San Francisco, for the initiation of a new member into a secret society, the Brotherhood of the Bell. The man who initiated Patterson 22 years earlier, financier Chad Harmon (Dean Jagger), is presiding at the initiation. Harmon gives him an address and instructs Patterson to go there to receive an assignment from the society; Patterson has been selected to prevent Dr. Konstantin Horvathy (Eduard Franz) from accepting a deanship at a college of linguistics. The Brotherhood wants this post for one of their own. Patterson is given dossiers of people who helped Horvathy defect to the United States, and he is to threaten to reveal these to the government of Horvathy's homeland if Horvathy accepts the new post. Against Brotherhood policy, Patterson consults Harmon about the legality and ethics of his assignment. Harmon tells Patterson to do it and be grateful that more is not asked of him.

Actors

Glenn Ford

(Prof. Andrew 'Andy' Patterson)Dean Jagger

(Chad Harmon)Rosemary Forsyth

(Vivian Masters Patterson)Maurice Evans

(Harry Masters)Will Geer

(Mike Patterson)
And :
Robert Pine
Eduard Franz
Dabney Coleman
William Conrad
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