THE MESMERIST

This extraordinary film, reedited by director Bill Morrison from a deteriorated nitrate print of James Youngs The Bells (1926), features Lionel Barrymore. In a dream, Barrymore is exposed as a murderer by the Mesmerist played by Boris Karloff. We then follow him into the psychedelic distortion of the fortunetellers tent, where he experiences his absolution as a hallucinatory vision of yet another reality. The film ends back in the reality of the dreamer.