In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Having set his own standards, Alfred Hitchcock must be judged by them; and, by them, his Jamaica Inn is merely journeyman melodrama.
– Frank S. Nugent,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
rotten:
The result is weird, but not wonderful.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Superb direction, excellent casting, expressive playing and fine production offset an uneven screenplay to make Jamaica Inn a gripping version of the Daphne du Maurier novel.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
rotten:
By common consent, one of Alfred Hitchcock's poorest and least personal works, though it has some compensations.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
20 Mar 2012
fresh:
Laughton is compelling from the first instant: His Pengallan is at least five of the seven deadly sins rolled into one, a cheerfully loathsome creature with wide-set eyebrows and a multitude of chins ...