This takes place in some undefined Tiroler age, so prepare yourself for slow moving panorama's of mighty alps. Landowner Muralt has his mind set on die shönen Maria, but she tells him he 'can't buy me love' and goes frolicking about in the green, green grass of home with mayor's son Lorenz Gerold. Unfortunately for them, the mayor takes sides with sure fire villain Muralt (who's fat, greedy and ill tempered to boot). At Maria and Lorenz's wedding, with his father looking on in anger, a tipsy Muralt crashes the party and demands to dance with the bride. Sure enough the whole rigmarole ends in chaos and fire. Then the fat villain decides to take it out on his maid. Shortly afterward the rivals meet on a tiny bridge over a waterfall that only has one railing. At that point you just know only one of them will reach the other side.
Well you guessed it, the surviving party gets accused of murder and is send to jail. Only Maria believes in his innocence. Flash forward 20 years (but without one gray hair or wrinkle being added). Maria has a grown son called Lance who feels nothing but resentment for the released convict heading home. He is more interested in buxom Regina (daughter of Muralt's maid?) and together they run around like the hills are alive. Lance visits her at night in footage clearly shot during daylight and then tinted blue. The same goes for the Frankenstein mob scene later on. Naturally they all return to that little Bridge of Doom just to hammer home the old history repeating itself cliché. Clearly nobody in town had the common sense to built a second railing during those long years.
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