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Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It is the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story " The Birds ").
In 1821 spirited orphan Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt Patience at the remote Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, run by Patience's forbidding husband Joss. Since her father was killed by smugglers Mary is not happy to discover that Joss has made the inn the meeting point for a local smuggling gang.
Jamaica Inn: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie, Frederick Piper. In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Jun 3, 1985 · Jamaica Inn: Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. With Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Eve, John McEnery. The respected vicar of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
After the death of her mother, young Mary (Maureen O'Hara) travels to the Cornish coast seeking her Aunt Patience (Marie Ney). Stranded on a windswept, isolated road, Mary meets Humphrey Pengallan...
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Circumstances force the spirited Mary Yellan to travel to the ominous Jamaica Inn in Cornwall to live with her downtrodden Aunt Patience. The Inn has no guests, and Patience’s violent husband Joss Merlyn is the ringleader of a dangerous group of smugglers.
Jamaica Inn: 75th Anniversary Edition. Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, a young woman discovers her uncle heads a gang of ship-wreckers and murderers under the secret patronage of the local squire. 636 IMDb 6.3 1 h 39 min 1939. X-Ray NR.
Recently orphaned Mary Yellan (Maureen O'Hara in her first major film role) arrives at Jamaica Inn from Ireland to live with her aunt. Unaware that it serves as the headquarters for a murderous...
Sep 15, 2014 · JAMAICA INN was the first of Hitchcock's adaptations of Daphne Du Maurier's novels including REBECCA and THE BIRDS. It was also Hitchcock's last film made in the UK before coming to America....
Mar 6, 2015 · Subscribed. 67. 27K views 8 years ago. Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey’s Lady Sybil) is Mary Yellan, the heroine of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic coming-of-age tale set in 1920s Cornwall....
