Jamaica Inn (1939)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Sidney Gilliat (screenplay) &
Joan Harrison (screenplay) ...
Release Date: 20 July 1939 (France) more
Genre: Adventure - Crime



* Cast :


Charles Laughton ... Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Horace Hodges ... His Butler
Hay Petrie ... His Groom
Frederick Piper ... His Agent
Herbert Lomas ... His Tenant
Clare Greet ... His Tenant
William Devlin ... His Tenant
Jeanne De Casalis ... His Friend (as Jeanne de Casalis)
Mabel Terry-Lewis ... His Friend (as Mabel Terry Lewis)
A. Bromley Davenport ... His Friend (as Bromley Davenport)
George Curzon ... His Friend
Basil Radford ... His Friend
Leslie Banks ... Joss Merlyn
Marie Ney ... Patience - His Wife
Maureen O'Hara ... Mary - His Niece


* Plot :


Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn.


Mary soon realizes that her uncle's inn is the base of a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast.


The girl starts fearing for her life.