Raiders of the lost archive

The British Film Institute has launched a search for a number of lost films, prime among them a silent by Alfred Hitchcock.

The British Film Institute has launched a search for a number of lost films, prime among them a silent by Alfred Hitchcock.

The Mountain Eagle(1928) was reasonably well received on release but, speaking to François Truffaut in the 1960s, the great man reckoned it "a very bad movie", before complaining about the star enrolled by the studio. "They sent me Nita Naldi, successor to Theda Bara. She had fingernails out to here. Ridiculous!" Still, if you have a print, you could help restore some cinema history.