Jamaica Inn

UK - 1939 - black and white

 

Written by:
Sidney Gilliat
Joan Harrison
J.B. Priestley
Alma Reville

Based upon the novel by:
Daphne Du Maurier

Cinematography by:
Bernard Knowles
Harry Stradling Sr.

Production design by:
Thomas N. Morahan

Costume design by:
Molly McArthur

Film editing by:
Robert Hamer

Music by:
Eric Fenby

Produced by:
Charles Laughton
Erich Pommer

  Cast

Charles Laughton (Humphrey Pengallan)

Leslie Banks (Joss Merlyn)

Emlyn Williams (Harry Pedlar)

Robert Newton (Jim Trehearne)

Marie Ney (Patience)

Wylie Watson (Salvation)

Maureen O'Hara (Mary Yelland)

Horace Hodges (Chadwick)

Hay Petrie (Groom)

Frederick Piper (Broker)

Morland Graham (Sydney)

Edwin Greenwood (Dandy)

Mervyn Johns (Thomas)

Stephen Haggard (the boy)

Herbert Lomas
Clare Greet
William Devlin
Jeanne De Casalis
Mabel Terry-Lewis
A. Bromley Davenport
George Curzon
Basil Radford

 

The movie is set is Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent
to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of
Jamaica Inn.
Judge Humphrey falls in love with the girl who refuses him.
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 now fears for her life and asks Humphrey for help but she finds
out he is the head of the gang.
The man kills Mary's aunt and drags the girl onto a ship. One of the pirates
is an English agent who saves Mary while Humphrey jumps in the sea
searching for an escape and finding death.

 


 


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