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.

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.

December

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

1926

January

• 5th - The Times carries a report that Gainsborough Pictures are planning to make six films during 1926, including The Pleasure Garden, The Mountain Eagle and an adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger.

May

• The Mountain Eagle is screened in Berlin.

October

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

1927

May

• 23rd - The Mountain Eagle is finally released.

1944

November

• 21st - Eliot Stannard, one of England's most prolific screenwriters, dies aged 56. He wrote (or co-wrote) the scenarios for Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Mountain Eagle (1926), Downhill (1927), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Ring (1927), Champagne (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928) and The Manxman (1929).

1961

February

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

1964

October

• 7th - German actor Bernhard Goetzke, who appeared in The Blackguard and The Mountain Eagle, dies aged 80.

1970

January

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