The Mountain Eagle
The Mountain Eagle was Alfred Hitchcock's second silent film as director, released in 1926, following The Pleasure Garden.
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.
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.
Six surviving stills are reproduced in Francois Truffaut's classic book of interviews with Hitchcock, and more stills have recently been found to exist.
| Alfred Hitchcock's films |
| The Pleasure Garden | The Mountain Eagle | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Downhill | Easy Virtue | The Ring | The Farmer's Wife | Champagne | The Manxman | Blackmail | Juno and the Paycock | Murder! | The Skin Game | Number Seventeen | Rich and Strange | Waltzes from Vienna | The Man Who Knew Too Much | The 39 Steps | Secret Agent | Sabotage | Young and Innocent | The Lady Vanishes | Jamaica Inn | Rebecca | Foreign Correspondent | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Suspicion | Saboteur | Shadow of a Doubt | Lifeboat | Spellbound | Notorious | The Paradine Case | Rope | Under Capricorn | Stage Fright | Strangers on a Train | I Confess | Dial M for Murder | Rear Window | To Catch a Thief | The Trouble With Harry | The Man Who Knew Too Much | The Wrong Man | Vertigo | North by Northwest | Psycho | The Birds | Marnie | Torn Curtain | Topaz | Frenzy | Family Plot |