The Mountain Eagle

The Mountain Eagle was Alfred Hitchcock's second silent film as director, released in 1926, following The Pleasure Garden.

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Alfred Hitchcock - Silent film - 1926 - The Pleasure Garden

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It is the only Hitchcock-directed feature that has been lost. No copies have been known to exist since its decade of release. Hitchcock himself considered it a mundane melodrama best forgotten, though fans naturally remain curious.

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Lost - Melodrama

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The film is (was) set in Kentucky. Mr. Pettigrew (Bernhard Goetzke), a shopkeeper, seeks the attentions of Beatrice, a schoolteacher (Nita Naldi), who rejects him. Out of spite, he accuses her of molesting his mentally ill son, Edward (John F. Hamilton). Beatrice runs away to the mountains and marries the hermit "Fear o' God" Fulton (Malcolm Keen). Pettigrew then hides his son and accuses Fulton of murdering him.

Related Topics:
Kentucky - Bernhard Goetzke - Nita Naldi - John F. Hamilton - Malcolm Keen

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Six surviving stills are reproduced in François Truffaut's classic book of interviews with Hitchcock, and more stills have recently been found to exist.

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