Alfred Hitchcock's stunning heritage as a director covers more than six decadesStarting from "The Lodger", a 1927 silent film believed to be the director's first critical success. Loger's comprehensive topics predict Hitchcock's directorial sensibilities, such as his serious interest in complex psychosexuality and perceptual preoccupation with death, guilt and cyclic nature of trauma. If we had to go back, here is the debut feature of "Garden for Satisfaction", which was considered too erotic filled when it was published and contained the plan for icons that will end by defining.

However, a less known film exists between "The Garden of Satisfaction" and "The Home"-that is thought to be the lost media except for the existence of six surviving photos of it. This silent film from 1926, "Mountain Eagle", is a romantic drama that rels strongly on German expressionism, while also taking a sensational path to establish the story. According to The Guardian, Hitchcock described the film as "terrible", and allegedly expressed relief for lost status after every survivor print was lost/destroyed during his life. It is difficult to really measure this feeling because the film can never be estimated by its merits, but it is an interesting perspective of A director who is known for being fearless and unrelated to his craft.

This is a good chance to consider the history of the "Mountain Eagle", which the British Film Institute (BFI) believes is the only one missing Hitchcock (we know). Technically, we have another Hitchcock's "lost" title ("No. 13" from 1922), but its unfinished status usually classifies as missing, as opposed to the lost, although it is very sought after. If we are thorough here, then his short film from 1930, the "elastic affair" (which made it for the awards ceremony in London Paladium), can also be considered lost by time.

Hitchcock's quiet -era films are crucial to better understand his evolution as a storyteller, especially as someone who could weave symbolically rich images and convey a thematic depth through it. Arike Oko, CEO of Knowledge in BFI, talked to Diversity For the earliest echoes that will become more pronounced during Hitchcock's career:

"There are things in those films (earlier, a quiet era) that you can see the echoes in his later work, where he becomes a famous director. You also see him starting to experiment with styles of shots and storytelling, with some of the mystery and murder as a kind and melodrama."

The mystique around the "mountain eagle" can contribute to the fact that it is so desperately wanted. Any existing perception of the quiet film is based on A sum of peaceful production who (fortunately) managed to survive. The film seems to be set in Kentucky, where a woman dies after a difficult delivery, and her husband (Bernhard Getk) tends to survive newborn, Edward (Fon Hamilton). After Edward reaches adolescence and begins to explore his sexuality, he becomes entangled in an inappropriate relationship with his teacher, Beatrice (Nita Naldi). Someone would think this would attract his father's anger, because every parent would like to protect his son, but Hitchcock injects psychosexual alubmorea in this drama and shapes it into a story of anger and revenge.

The information about the end of the film remains contradictory because no one can confirm its true nature, but BFI still hopes the "mountain eagle" managed to survive Somewhere, somehow. Does it collect dust in someone's forgotten collection of quiet films in the era of the 1920s? Maybe not, but experts in film and enthusiasts in the film hope it may be cataloged somewhere under another name and will inevitably appear soon.