The Story
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Jamaica Inn
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.
The Story
On the wild Cornish coast, an orphaned girl discovers that her new home is the lair of murderous wreckers.
Arriving to stay with her aunt at Jamaica Inn, Mary Yellan finds the place fronting a gang that snuffs out coastal beacons to sink ships, then loots the cargo and kills the survivors. Beneath the racket sits a respectable squire who secretly pulls its strings, and an undercover lawman who has unwittingly asked him for help. When Mary relights a beacon to save a doomed vessel, she marks herself for death and forces the conspiracy into a final, deadly chase.
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Year
- 1939
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Crime · Adventure · Thriller
Principal Cast
- Charles LaughtonSir Humphrey Pengallan
- Maureen O’HaraMary Yellan
- Robert NewtonJames “Jem” Trehearne
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