The Mountain Eagle is a 1927 British
silent film, and
Alfred Hitchcock's second as director following
The Pleasure Garden. The film, a romantic melodrama set in
Kentucky, is about a widower (
Bernhard Goetzke) who jealously competes with his crippled son (John F. Hamilton) and a man he loathes (
Malcolm Keen) over the affections of a schoolteacher (
Nita Naldi). The film was mostly produced at the
Emelka Film studios in
Munich, Germany in autumn of 1925, with exterior scenes shot in the village of
Obergurgl in the
State of Tyrol, Austria. Production was plagued with problems, including the destruction of a village roof and Hitchcock experiencing
altitude sickness. Due to producing the film in Germany, Hitchcock had more directorial freedom than he would have had in England, and he was influenced by German cinematic style and technique.