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Jamaica Inn (1939)

Movie"He ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent."
Audience Score
60
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NR 1 hr 48 minOct 13th, 1939Crime, Thriller, Adventure
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.
StarringCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraRobert Newton
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 13th, 1939
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 27th, 2000 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Mayflower Pictures
Movie Tags:
based on novel or bookblack and whitekidnapping19th centuryseasmuggling (contraband)greedshipwreckundercover agentaristocrat