Jamaica Inn (film)

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Mauriers 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Mauriers works that Hitchcock adapted the others were her novel Rebecca and short story The Birds. It stars Charles Laughton and Maureen OHara. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States.

Jamaica Inn is the headquarters of a gang of wreckers led by the innkeeper Joss Merlyn Leslie Banks. The wreckers are responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons to cause ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast. Then they kill the surviving sailors and steal the cargo from the wrecks.Beautiful, young Mary Yellen Maureen OHara is travelling to Jamaica Inn in a carriage, but the driver is afraid to stop there and drives a long way past the inn in spite of her repeated demands that he stop. Instead, he drops her off near the home of the local squire and justice of the peace, Sir Humphrey Pengallan Charles Laughton. She meets him and requests the loan of a horse so she can go back to Jamaica Inn. Pengallan warns her not to go there. Nevertheless, Mary says she just came from Ireland, and as the orphaned niece of Josss wife Patience Marie Ney, she intends to live at Jamaica Inn. Unable to convince her to stay, Pengallan accompanies Mary to Jamaica Inn. ........

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