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Hitchcock Chronology: The Mountain Eagle (1926)

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to The Mountain Eagle (1926)...

1925

August

  • 28th - Actress Nita Naldi applies to have her passport extended in order to travel to Europe to work on The Mountain Eagle. The extension is approved on 5th September.[1]

October

  • Location filming for The Mountain Eagle takes place in Tyrolean villages of Obergurgl and Umhausen.

November

  • Hitchcock retuns to Munich to begin studio filming for The Mountain Eagle with Nita Naldi.[2]

December

  • Gainsborough Pictures announce that, upon his return from Munich where he is filming The Mountain Eagle, Hitchcock will direct The Lodger.[3]
  • With filming completed on The Mountain Eagle, Hitchcock returns to London and begins post-production editing.[4]

1926

January

May

  • The Mountain Eagle is screened in Berlin.[6]

October

  • 1st - The Mountain Eagle is screened for the trade at the London Hippodrome.[7]

1927

May

  • 23rd - The Mountain Eagle is finally released.[8]

1944

November

1961

February

  • 17th - Actress Nita Naldi, who starred in The Mountain Eagle, dies aged 65.

1964

October

1970

January

  • 30th - Actor Malcolm Keen, who starred in The Mountain Eagle, The Lodger and The Manxman, dies aged 82.

References

  1. Source: ancestry.co.uk
  2. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 71
  3. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 74
  4. Hitchcock Annual (1998) - Hitchcock's "The Mountain Eagle"
  5. The Times (05/Jan/1926) - The Film World
  6. Hitchcock Annual (1998) - Hitchcock's "The Mountain Eagle"
  7. Daily Mail (02/Oct/1926) - Mr. Malcolm Keen
  8. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, page 97