The Wildcat [Die Bergkatze] (1921)

German intertitles, English captions "The Wildcat (a.k.a. The Mountain Cat, German: Die Bergkatze), subtitled A Grotesque in Four Acts, is a 1921 German silent, farcical romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wildcat_%281921_film%29](Wikipedia) "A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained." https://archive.org/details/die-bergkatze-aka-the-wildcat-ernst-lubitsch-1921-vpd-8-tdg-rk-m https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011960/ NB: it was a key inspiration for the 2022 film Hundreds of Beavers.