Charles Laughton
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
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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.”
PG · 12 May 1939 · 100 min · English
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The film
Synopsis
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.
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Cast & characters
Maureen O'Hara
Mary Yellan
Robert Newton
James "Jem" Trehearne
Leslie Banks
Joss Merlyn
Marie Ney
Patience Merlyn
Horace Hodges
Chadwick
Emlyn Williams
Harry
Wylie Watson
Salvation
Mervyn Johns
Thomas
Hay Petrie
Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
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Edwin Greenwood
Dandy
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Stephen Haggard
Willie
Behind the camera
Key crew
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writing
- Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison, Sidney Gilliat
- Cinematography
- Harry Stradling Sr., Bernard Knowles
- Original music
- Eric Fenby
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