A Midnight Bell is a 1921 American silent comedy film.

[1] The film is based on a play by the same name written by Charles Hale Hoyt that premiered on Broadway in 1889 with Maude Adams in a leading role and starred Eugene Canfield as Martin Tripp.

[2][1] Director Charles Ray went on to lose his entire fortune in 1923 when he produced The Courtship of Miles Standish, which was a terrible flop at the box office.

[3] Martin Tripp is a traveling salesman who turns a struggling small-town store into a successful business.

A group of criminals, pretending to manifest supernatural phenomena, are exposed by Tripp in the end.