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Jamaica Inn (1939)

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Crime Adventure Thriller

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.

Release Date: 1939, May 11
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Mayflower Pictures
Cast: Emlyn Williams, John Longden, Charles Laughton, William Devlin, Sam Lee, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Marie Ney, Robert Adair, Aubrey Mather, Wylie Watson, Frederick Piper

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book kidnapping 19th century pirate undercover agent aristocrat smuggling (contraband) sea black and white plunder shipwreck greed cornwall, england squire cutthroat multiple murder loyal wife