Crime ·Adventure ·Thriller · United Kingdom · 1939 · 1h 40m

Jamaica Inn

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Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey Pengallan Maureen O'Hara as Mary Yellan Robert Newton as James "Jem" Trehearne Leslie Banks as Joss Merlyn Marie Ney as Patience Merlyn Horace Hodges as Chadwick
Crew
Bernard Knowles — Director of Photography Harry Stradling Sr. — Director of Photography Robert Hamer — Editor Eric Fenby — Original Music Composer Joan Harrison — Screenplay Sidney Gilliat — Screenplay
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.

Synopsis

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.

Trailer Jamaica Inn — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
seabased on novel or booksmuggling (contraband)undercover agentkidnappingshipwreckgreedcornwall, englandpirateblack and whitearistocratmultiple murder
Key Collaborators
Alfred Hitchcock Director Bernard Knowles Director of Photography Harry Stradling Sr. Director of Photography Robert Hamer Editor Eric Fenby Original Music Composer Joan Harrison Screenplay Sidney Gilliat Screenplay Daphne du Maurier Novel Erich Pommer Producer Charles Laughton Producer Molly McArthur Costume Design
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