Jamaica Inn (1939)
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Directors
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams
The story
In 1820 the Jamaica Inn houses the clandestine rural headquarters of a gang of cut-throats and thieves, led by innkeeper Joss Merlyn. They have become wreckers who are responsible for shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons, causing ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast. They then kill the surviving sailors and steal their cargo.
Genres
Adventure, Crime, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, pirate film, romance film, thriller film
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