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Movies -  with Bell Themes

Bell Book and Candle

Hunchback of Notre Dame

From the desk of Barbara Bigelow McGuigan
1. 
 Bells of St. Mary's, The (1945)
2.  Royal Wedding (1951)
 aka "Wedding Bells"
3.  Bells Are Ringing (1960)
4.  Krasnye kolokola, film pervyj - Meksika v ogne (1982)
 aka "Red Bells"
5.  Bells of San Angelo (1947)
6.  Miracle of the Bells, The (1948)
7.  Bell's Breath, The (1998)
8.  When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
9.  Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells II (1992) (V)
10.  Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells III (1999) (V)
11.  De ce trag clopotele, Mitica? (1981)
 aka "Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?"
12.  Bells, The (1926)
13.  Single Bells (1998) (TV)
14.  Bells of Coronado (1950)
15.  Bells of Innocence, The (2003)
16.  Bells of Rosarita (1945)
17.  Bells of Capistrano (1942)
18.  Jingle Bells (1999) (TV)

 
In Hitchcock's VERTIGO ......San Juan Batista, the Spanish mission which features in key scenes in the movie doesn't actually have a bell tower - it was added with trick photography. The mission originally had a steeple but it was demolished following a fire.
other Bells in the plot, just not the name....
 
Crociati" (2001) (mini)
He has built an enormous cathedral # and wants Peter to make the bells for it....
 

"Nine Tailors, The" (1974) (mini)

The title refers to the nine strokes of a church bell to announce the death of a man. In this adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers's intricate, nostalgic, and atmospheric novel of the same name, Lord Peter Wimsey, stranded in a New-Year's Eve snowstorm ca. 1930 in the fens of eastern England, becomes the guest of a local clergyman, an adept enthusiast of the esoteric, mathematical art of change-ringing the eight swinging bells of his magnificent medieval church.

Little Drummer Boy Book II, The (1976) (TV)

Aaron, after playing his song, helps Melchior to spread the word by ringing Simeon's silver bells. But when the Romans take the bells for taxes, it's up to Aaron and his animal companions to rescue them.


 

 

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