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Jamaica Inn
1939Age guide: 12+
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…
★ 6.1/10 · 259 TMDB audience ratings
Starring
Charles LaughtonSir Humphrey Pengallan
Maureen O'HaraMary Yellan
Robert NewtonJames "Jem" Trehearne
Leslie BanksJoss Merlyn
Marie NeyPatience Merlyn
Horace HodgesChadwick
Emlyn WilliamsHarry
Wylie WatsonSalvation
Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers
CinemaSerf: Charles Laughton excels as local grandee "Sir Humphrey" in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier's book. The bleak photography and huge great… Read full review
tmcd77: Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock, both of Rebecca fame, what could go wrong? Well, everything really. Dodgy cinematography, even for the time.… Read full review