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6.1/10 • 225

1939-05-111h 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.

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.

Directors
Alfred Hitchcock
Editors
Robert Hamer

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  1. Charles Laughton

    Charles Laughton

    Sir Humphrey Pengallan

  2. Maureen O'Hara

    Maureen O'Hara

    Mary Yellan

  3. Robert Newton

    Robert Newton

    James "Jem" Trehearne

  4. Leslie Banks

    Leslie Banks

    Joss Merlyn

  5. Marie Ney

    Marie Ney

    Patience Merlyn

  6. Horace Hodges

    Horace Hodges

    Chadwick

  7. Emlyn Williams

    Emlyn Williams

    Harry

  8. Wylie Watson

    Wylie Watson

    Salvation

  9. Mervyn Johns

    Mervyn Johns

    Thomas

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CinemaSerf

Jun 22, 2022

7/10

Charles Laughton excels as local grandee "Sir Humphrey" in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier's book. The bleak photography and huge great waves help generate a sense of the menace of the evil Cornish wreckers. They are led by Leslie Banks's malevolent "Joss" who is just as cruel to his wife "Patience" (Marie Ney) as he is to any survivors after his men seek to drive ships onto the rocks and make off with the contraband - murdering as they go. His niece "Mary" (Maureen O'Hara) and under-cover customs man "Trehearne" (Robert Newton) discover the evil antics and complicities of both "Joss", his puppet-master and his accomplices and the film now tells the tale of their own death-defying actions trying to bring all to justice. Alfred Hitchcock has much to work with here, the photography is effective and the star is exactly that.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$200,436.00
Revenue
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Keywords
seabased on novel or booksmuggling (contraband)undercover agentkidnappingshipwreckgreedcornwall, englandblack and whitearistocratmultiple murder19th centurysquireplundercutthroatloyal wife