A 1970 made-for-TV movie “Brotherhood of the Bell” depicts the reality of Freemasonry

 by Edward Ulrich, February 5, 2023





A made-for-TV movie “Brotherhood of the Bell” that was broadcast in 1970 on the American CBS television network offers a rare glimpse into how the secret society of Freemasonry operates.

In the movie, a college professor who is a member of the organization was given an “assignment” to force another professor who is his friend to turn down a promotion by blackmailing him, however his friend overreacted to the situation and committed suicide, making the professor distraught at what he had done and deciding to try to expose what happened to the authorities.

However, once the professor started “rocking the boat,” he discovered that unknowingly to him essentially all of his associates were members of the same group, where he progressively dug himself deeper into a hole of hardships due of his actions, eventually to the point of his life being destroyed.

I think it is actually a movie that the Masons may want their members to see, because even though what he was asked to do was very unfair to the other professor, he wasn’t actually asked to physically harm him, and what happened to the professor for breaking his vows became progressively more terrible as he continued to refuse to let it go— but with the movie portraying his hardships as mostly occurring due to him overreacting as well, which I think was actually the intended message of the movie.

Nonetheless, the movie is one of the very rare instances of Freemasonry being depicted or even mentioned in the media, where it shows how completely compartmentalized the organization is, and how people in many professions are required to be members of it without even having a good understanding of what it is.