Jamaica Inn (1939)

Charles Laughton
Maureen O'Hara



Genres
Drama
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
Daphne Du Maurier (novel) Sidney Gilliat Joan Harrison J.B. Priestley
Composer
Eric Fenby
Director of Photography
Harry Stradling Sr.

Review
Stodgy Victorian costumer of cutthroat band headed by nobleman Laughton; O'Hara is lovely, but plodding Hitchcock film is disappointing. Based on Daphne du Maurier novel; Hitch had far more success a year later with du Maurier's Rebecca . Remade for British TV in 1985.

Leslie Banks
Joss Merlyn
Horace Hodges
Butler
Mervyn Johns
Thomas
Charles Laughton
Sir Humphre
Pengallan
Marie Ney
Patience
Maureen O'Hara
Mary
Hay Petrie
Groom
Frederick Piper
Broker
Wylie Watson
Salvation
Emlyn Williams
Harr Mabel
Terry Lewis
 
Herbert Lomas
 
Robert Newton
 
Basil Radford
 
George Curzon
 
William Devlin
 
Morland Graham
 
Edwin Greenwood
 
Clare Greet
 
Stephen Haggard
 

 



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