Talk:The Mountain Eagle

Kentucky
J.L. Kuhns did some exhaustive research for an article on the film which appeared in the Hitchcock Annual (1998). He states that it was film critic Peter Noble who first made the claim the film (in his 1949 "An Index to the Creative Work of Alfred Hitchcock" article for Sight and Sound) was set in Kentucky by misinterpreting a statement Hitchcock made about the original draft script being set there. He says he found no evidence to support Noble's assumption that Hitchcock intended the film itself to be set in Kentucky and none of the original trade journal synopses make that claim (in fact, the review in The Bioscope implies a European setting for the film). Other writers (e.g. Spoto) appear to have assumed Noble had seen the film and repeated the Kentucky location, but Kuhns felt that it was unlikely that Noble had seen the film and that he'd based his own synopsis on the one that appeared in The Bioscope. Given Kuhns' research, it would seem appropriate for Wikipedia not to continue Noble's unsubstantiated claim that the film is set in Kentucky. Unless someone objects strongly, I'll edit the article soon to remove the Kentucky references. As a side note, Noble made a surprising number of errors in his summaries of Hitchcock films and was responsible for the erroneous claim that Nita Naldi appeared at "the native girl" in The Pleasure Garden. Davepattern (talk) 20:25, 21 January 2014 (UTC)