The Brotherhood of the Bell is one of those rare made-for-TV movies from 1970 that hits harder today than it probably did when it first aired. On the surface, it’s an academic conspiracy thriller built around secret societies and institutional corruption — but at its core, it’s a story about personal conscience, moral collapse, and what happens when the truth becomes too big, too dangerous, and too inconvenient for the people at the top. Glenn Ford delivers one of the strongest television performances of his career. He plays the role with a mix of authority, vulnerability, and that classic Ford intensity that lets you feel the weight of every decision pressing down on him. He anchors the film so thoroughly that you follow him willingly into the spiraling paranoia — because he makes you believe every moment of it. The supporting cast is a who’s who of early-70s Hollywood character actors. A very young Dabney Coleman pops up in one of those delightful “Wait—THAT’S Dabney Coleman??” momen...