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A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick for the 20th Century-Fox studio. It stars Anthony Quinn and James Coburn as the pirates who capture five children.
A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes' first novel, it was set in the late nineteenth century and followed a group of children captured by pirates on a voyage from Jamaica.
- Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
- 1929
A 1965 adventure drama film based on a dark and disturbing novel by Richard Hughes. It follows the story of a group of children who are kidnapped by pirates and their relationship with the captain.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1965-06-04
A High Wind in Jamaica. Richard Hughes. 3.77. 9,935 ratings1,091 reviews. New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.
- (9.9K)
- 1929
- Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
- Paperback
A High Wind in Jamaica. The Thorntons are a British family living in Jamaica in 1870. When they decide to send their children back to England for a proper education, the long journey home...
- (131)
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Adventure
- Anthony Quinn
Oct 23, 2019 · This novel chronicles two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience. After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England.
