Jamaica Inn (1939)
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.
1939 · NR · 1h 40m · Crime, Adventure
Genres: Crime, Adventure
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison, Daphne du Maurier
Music by: Eric Fenby
Cinematography: Harry Stradling Sr., Bernard Knowles
Editor: Robert Hamer
Rated 6.1/10 by 256 viewers
Cast
Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey PengallanMaureen O'Hara as Mary YellanRobert Newton as James "Jem" TrehearneLeslie Banks as Joss MerlynMarie Ney as Patience MerlynHorace Hodges as ChadwickEmlyn Williams as HarryWylie Watson as SalvationMervyn Johns as ThomasHay Petrie as Sir Humphrey's Groom SamEdwin Greenwood as DandyStephen Haggard as WillieMore like this
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