After Enid and Jack Radnor, vacationing in the Virginia mountains, have a bitter quarrel, Enid meets Polly Mason and Martin Hale, who invite her to their cabin. There she discovers that something mysterious is happening in the mountains.


In the monochrome hush of 1920, Mountain Madness arrives like a lantern swung over a chasm, flickering between matrimonial ennui and frontier peril. Anna Alice Chapin’s scenario, laconic on intertitles yet verbose in implication, treats the Virginia highlands as both cathedral and courtroom. Trees arch like vaulted r...

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" In the monochrome hush of 1920, Mountain Madness arrives like a lantern swung over a chasm, flickering between matrimonial ennui and frontier peril. Anna Alice Chapin’s scenario, laconic on intertitles yet verbose in implication, treats the Virginia highlands as both cathedral and courtroom. Trees arch like vaulted ribs; cliffs serve as witness stands. Every footstep echoes with prior sins, every cough of smoke from the robbed locomotive seems to mutter remember me. Ora Carew’s Enid begins th..."
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