
Jamaica Inn
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
59
6 sourcesSynopsis
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
StarringCharles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Marie Ney, Horace Hodges
Written byJoan Harrison, Sidney Gilliat
CinematographyBernard Knowles
EditingRobert Hamer
MusicEric Fenby
Jamaica Inn
1939 · NR · 1h 40m
Crime, Adventure, Thriller
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
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