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A High Wind in Jamaica Anthony Quinn's penchant for grizzled characterization gets a colorful boost in this picturization of Richard Hughes' 1929 bestseller, which projects him as a Caribbean pirate.
High Wind In Jamaica is a pleasantly old-fashioned sort of adventure. Full Review | Jun 27, 2019. A rarely seen gem that has slipped by the public unnoticed, though receiving great reviews. Full ...
A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by Welsh author Richard Hughes. First titled The Innocent Voyage, it concerns a young girl named Emily Bas-Thornton and her four siblings, John, Edward, Laura, and Rachel, whose lives on a Jamaican plantation are interrupted when a hurricane decimates their home. Their parents send them home to England on ...
A hurricane hits Jamaica in 1870. The Thorntons (Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean), parents of five children, feel it is time to send them to England for a more civilized upbringing and education. During the voyage, pirates board the ship and the children end up accidentally leaving on the pirate ship. The pirate captain, Chavez (Anthony Quinn ...
Mar 19, 2005 · Winds of change. A High Wind in Jamaica is full of adventure, Michael Holroyd argues, as it patrols the borders between children and adults. Michael Holroyd. Fri 18 Mar 2005 19.46 EST. I first ...
Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of children. The Thorntons, a British family living in Jamaica, decide to pull up stakes and sail back to England after Frederick Thornton (Nigel Davenport) and his wife (Isabel Dean) decide that life in the Caribbean is having a negative effect on her children's sense of order ...
