Hitchcock's movies

Written by:
Eliot Stannard
Max Ferner:
Charles Lapworth

Cinematography by:
Gaetano Ventimiglia

Production design by:
Willi Reiber
Ludwig Reiber

Produced by:
Michael Balcon

Cast

Nita Naldi (Beatrice)

Bernhard Goetzke (Pettigrew)

John F. Hamilton (Edward Pettigrew)

Malcolm Keen ("Fear o' God" Fulton)

Pettigrew, a shop-keeper in a mountain town of Kentucky, falls in love
with the teacher, Beatrice. The girl doesn't consider him as a lover, so he
gets angry and accuses her of molesting his son Edward who has a
mental illness.
All the people in the town are against Beatrice now and she must go away.
She takes refuge in the mountains where she meets the hermit, Fear O'God Fulton.
The man proposes marriage to her in order to calm the people's anger and she
will be free again whenever she asks. Beatrice accepts.
Day by day the girl falls in love with her husband and a child is born.
Pettigrew wants to take his revenge so he hides Edward and charges the hermit
with his son's murder. Fear O'God is imprisoned but he escapes and takes
refuge in the mountain with his wife and son.
When the child gets ill, Fear O'God must came back to the little town and
Pettigrew attacks him but Edward escapes form his prison and Fulton is
safe.

This second film of Hitchcock has been completely lost. We know the plot
by newspapers of those years and we know what the director said about
it. He thought the movie was bad and ridiculous.