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Mayflower Pictures/ Associated British Picture Corporation Release date: 12 May 1939 Time: - mins - secs Rating: 7/10 Director: Alfred Hitchcock From the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne Du Maurier Screenplay: Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison Producer: Erich Pommer Music: Bernard Hermann Cinematography: Harry Stradling Sr. Editor: Robert Hamer Music: Eric Fenby |
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A gang of cutthroats lure a ship onto the rocks of a Cornish coast one night when one of their members deliberately covers a beacon on a cliff and blocks out the light. After a brief struggle, the gang storm the wrecked boat and murder all on board before plundering it of all valuables and vanishing into the darkness. That night a young woman by the name of Mary Yellan rides to a small, out of the way place known as Jamaica Inn, a notorious gathering place for the criminals but the coachman refuses to stop there, instead letting her off some way past it. She takes refuge at a nearby mansion where Sir Humphrey Pengallan, a snobby, wealthy and pompous man is holding a dinner party for some fellow guests. He is immediately infatuated with her and descides to escort her himself to Jamaica Inn. When there Mary, who has traveled from Ireland, finds her Aunt Patience and tells her she is going to be staying there for a while following her mother's recent death. The news is not so much welcomed by Patience's husband Joss but he agrees to let her stay. That night the sailors, held up at the inn discover that one of their newer members has been deceiving the rest of the group by not declaring his share of the stolen treasures and it is determined that he be hanged so as to set an example. REVIEW COMPLETE TO 31 MINUTES |
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| Facts • [INSERT] Trivia • This was the first of three stories by Daphne Du Maurier that Alfred Hitchcock filmed; the others being Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). • A decent TV-movie version was made in 1983. Personal opinion • "By no means a classic, but unfiarly and severely underrated by many critics." |
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Charles Laughton Sir Humphrey Pengallan |
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Leslie Banks Joss Merlyn |
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Maureen O'Hara Mary Yellan |
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Marie Ney Aunt Patience |
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Robert Newton Jim Trehearne |
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Horace Hodges Chadwick, Sir Humphrey's butler |
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Emlyn Williams Harry, the peddlar |
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Wylie Watson Salvation Watkins |
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Edwin Greenwood Dandy |
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Morland Graham Sydney |
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Mabel Terry Lewis Lady Beston |
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A. Bromley Davenport Ringwood |
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O.B. Clarence Coach passenger |
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Marie Ault Coach passenger |
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Aubrey Mather Coachman |
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