Jamaica Inn (1983)

Directed by

Lawrence Gordon Clark

Genre

miniseries, drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An orphaned young woman goes to live with her aunt and uncle at a remote inn on the Cornish coast. She discovers the inn is a base for a gang of ship wreckers who lure vessels to the rocky shore for plunder.

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What happens

Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the 1936 novel Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall, England in the early 19th century. The series dramatizes the cultural trope of wreckers, clipper ship era pirates who employed various deceptions including mislocated lights, to lure ships to their doom on irregular rugged shorelines for subsequent plundering. It stars Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan and Trevor Eve and was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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