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Jamaica Inn (1939)

NR 10/11/1939 (US) Crime, History, Adventure, Thriller 1h 48m

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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.

Alfred Hitchcock

Director
Daphne du Maurier

Novel
Joan Harrison

Screenplay
Sidney Gilliat

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Top Billed Cast

Charles Laughton

Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Maureen O'Hara

Mary Yellan
Robert Newton

James "Jem" Trehearne
Leslie Banks

Joss Merlyn
Marie Ney

Patience Merlyn
Horace Hodges

Chadwick
Emlyn Williams

Harry
Wylie Watson

Salvation
Mervyn Johns

Thomas
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A review by CinemaSerf

70%

Written by CinemaSerf on June 22, 2022

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.

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