Jamaica Inn (1939)
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
- Edward Joseph
- Roy Goddard
- Sidney Gilliat
- Joan Harrison
- Sidney Gilliat
- Daphne du Maurier
Rating: 6.057/10 by 209 users
Alternative Title:
Die Taverne von Jamaika - DE
L'Auberge de la Jamaïque - FR
La posada maldita - AR
牙买加旅馆 - CN
黑海人妖 - CN
Jamaica Innin rantarosvot - FI
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 48 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: sea, based on novel or book, smuggling (contraband), undercover agent, kidnapping, shipwreck, greed, cornwall, england, black and white, aristocrat, multiple murder, 19th century, squire, plunder, cutthroat, loyal wife
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.
