Jamaica Inn

1939

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 12116 12.1K

sea based on novel or book smuggling (contraband) undercover agent kidnapping shipwreck

Plot summary

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.

Director

Alfred Hitchcock Photo
Alfred Hitchcock

Top cast

Morland Graham Photo
Morland Graham as Sea Lawyer Sydney - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Herbert Lomas Photo
Herbert Lomas as Sir Humphrey's Tenant
Basil Radford Photo
Basil Radford as Sir Humphrey's Friend
Robert Newton Photo
Robert Newton as Jem Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang
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757.99 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 4
1.44 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Laughton and O'Hara give sensational acting in this costume/adventure film by the genius Hitchcock

At the beginning XIX century , Cornualles , where rules and inquisitive judge , Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton) . There is going a young orphan called Mary (a gorgeous Mauren O'Hara is eighteen years old) to live with her uncle (Leslie Banks) , owner of the Jamaica Inn . Soon afterwards , she is realized the inn is the base of a band of criminals who are planning shipwrecks on the rocky coast for rob it .This nice picture is a costume drama with action , suspense , romance , adventures , tension and formidable interpretation . It's a romantic story with exciting images narrated in amazing agility and swiftly ; thus it happens : murders , storms , shipwrecks , escapes , pursuits... The film along with ¨Walzes from Vienna¨(1934) and ¨Under Capricorn¨(1949) is one from trio Hitchcock's epoch tales . And it is the first of Daphne of Maurier adaptations along with ¨Rebeca¨ and ¨The birds¨. Although Alfred Hitchcock was unhappy with the script and Charles Laughton's performance , still he experimented on this film just as he did on his previous film , The lady vanishes (1938) . Hitchcock had problems with Charles Laugthon (1899-1962), both of whom had a difficult and obstinate character and they bore remarkable physical resemblance . Besides , the sadomasochist relation between Laughton and Mauren O'Hara reflects the tempestuous relationship Hitchcock had with this actress . Evocative photography in black and white . Hitchcock and cinematographer Harry Stradling Jr. gave the film a darker look in order to make it very atmospheric . Stradling later worked with Hitchcock in Mr and Mrs Smith (1941) and Suspicion (1941) . This movie has background music only at the beginning and the end This is the last film from Hitchcock's British career . Soon afterward this movie , Hitchcock was contracted by the great producer David O.Selznick (Gone with the wind) for the direction of the hit smash ¨Rebeca¨. He started the plenty successful American career and no returning to England until ¨Frenzy¨ (1972).
Reviewed by cricketbat 6 / 10

I disagree with Hitchcock

Some have ranked Jamaica Inn among the worst of Hitchcock's films, including Hitchcock himself, but I don't think it's that bad. The story is interesting, and I think Maureen O'Hara does a great job as the plucky protagonist, while Charles Laughton holds my attention whenever he's on the screen. I don't understand why this film is so disliked.
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