Movie
Jamaica Inn
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1939-05-11
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Crime, Adventure, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Mayflower Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
- Maureen O'Hara as Mary Yellan
- Robert Newton as James "Jem" Trehearne
- Leslie Banks as Joss Merlyn
- Marie Ney as Patience Merlyn
- Horace Hodges as Chadwick
- Emlyn Williams as Harry
- Wylie Watson as Salvation
- Mervyn Johns as Thomas
- Hay Petrie as Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
- Edwin Greenwood as Dandy
- Stephen Haggard as Willie
Crew
- Alfred Hitchcock - Director
- Sidney Gilliat - Screenplay
- Joan Harrison - Screenplay
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