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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 ").
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.
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- 1939-10-13
Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall around 1815.
May 1, 2024 · “Jamaica Inn” (1939). Hitchcock’s last British film, adapted from Du Maurier’s 1936 novel, is a grim, darkly lit, oddly winking but never humorous portrait of life in the early 19 th century on the brutal Cornish coast. It would feature zero appealing characters, except that the beautiful Maureen O’Hara – in her breakthrough role ...
Jamaica Inn (1939) was the first of three Daphne Du Maurier adaptations that Alfred Hitchcock directed, which would seem to indicate something of the esteem in which he held the novelist. (The other two films were, of course, Rebecca (1940) and The Birds, 1963.)
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Charles Laughton
Overview. In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit. Alfred Hitchcock. Director. Daphne du Maurier. Novel. Sidney Gilliat. Screenplay. Joan Harrison.
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Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story "The Birds"). It stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.
