Jamaica Inn (1939)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

drama film, adventure film, crime film, romance film, thriller film, crime thriller film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 249 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman arrives in Cornwall in 1820 and stays at a remote inn. She discovers the innkeeper is involved with a gang of criminals who wreck ships on the coast.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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