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Jamaica Inn

1939 · Film · 100 min

  • Crime
  • Adventure

Plot

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

About Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It is the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story "The Birds"). It stars Charles Laughton (who also produced the film through his Mayflower Pictures) and Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820, in the real Jamaica Inn (which still exists) on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

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Cast

  • Charles LaughtonSir Humphrey Pengallan
  • Maureen O'HaraMary Yellan
  • Robert NewtonJames "Jem" Trehearne
  • Leslie BanksJoss Merlyn
  • Marie NeyPatience Merlyn
  • Horace HodgesChadwick
  • Emlyn WilliamsHarry
  • Wylie WatsonSalvation
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