Jamaica Inn

Title:

Jamaica Inn

Genres:

Crime , History , Adventure , Thriller

Companies:

Mayflower Pictures

Countries:

United Kingdom

Release Date:

1939-05-11

Runtime:

108

Languages:

English

Status:

Released

Tagline:

He ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent.

Overview

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

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Charles Laughto

Sir Humphrey Pengallan

Maureen O'Hara

Mary Yellan

Robert Newton

James "Jem" Trehearne

Leslie Banks

Joss Merlyn

Marie Ney

Patience Merlyn

Horace Hodges

Chadwick

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Movie Reviews

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Charles Laughton excels as "Sir Humphrey" in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier's book. The bleak photography helps generate a sense of the menace of the wreckers as they - led by Leslie Banks - seek to drive ships onto the rocks and make off with the contraband - murdering as they go. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Newton discover the evil antics of the squire and his accomplices and the film tells the tale of their death defying antics to bring all to justice. Alfred Hitchcock has much to work with here, and he makes the most of it.