Britain's film institute wants to find scores of lost films, including famous director's The Mountain Eagle
The Mountain Eagle, a 1928 black and white silent movie, is a ripping yarn about a dastardly father, a crippled son, a lovely schoolteacher and an innocent imprisoned. Alfred Hitchcock described it as "awful", and he should know – he made it.
The film is lost, but the British Film Institute is convinced that somebody somewhere has it, in an attic, a cellar or a cardboard box waiting to go to a charity shop. It wants a copy to add to its archive, the largest in the world with more than 180,000 films and 750,000 television programmes.
The Mountain Eagle is the only missing Hitchcock, but the BFI launches a hunt today for scores more British movies that have also vanished without trace. The list includes Sherlock Holmes's first screen appearance in 1914's A Study in Scarlet...
The Mountain Eagle, a 1928 black and white silent movie, is a ripping yarn about a dastardly father, a crippled son, a lovely schoolteacher and an innocent imprisoned. Alfred Hitchcock described it as "awful", and he should know – he made it.
The film is lost, but the British Film Institute is convinced that somebody somewhere has it, in an attic, a cellar or a cardboard box waiting to go to a charity shop. It wants a copy to add to its archive, the largest in the world with more than 180,000 films and 750,000 television programmes.
The Mountain Eagle is the only missing Hitchcock, but the BFI launches a hunt today for scores more British movies that have also vanished without trace. The list includes Sherlock Holmes's first screen appearance in 1914's A Study in Scarlet...
- 7/5/2010
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
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