A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 DeLuxe Color film, based on the novel of the same name, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick for the 20th CenturyFox studio. It stars Anthony Quinn and James Coburn as the pirates who capture five children.
A hurricane hits the isle of Jamaica in 1870. The Thorntons Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean, parents of five children, feel it is time to send the children to England for a more civilized upbringing and education.During the voyage, pirates board the ship and take the children captive. The pirate captain, Chavez Anthony Quinn and first mate Zac James Coburn take an immediate liking to young Emily Deborah Baxter, and decide to sail to Tampico and leave the kids safely with a woman there named Rosa Lila Kedrova, a brothel madam with a good heart. ........
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