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 ...
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
Jamaica Inn
He ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent.
1939 · 1h 40m · Approved
Adventure, Crime
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Jamaica Inn
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
- Horace Hodges as His Butler
- Maureen O'Hara as Mary Yellan
- Hay Petrie as His Groom
- Robert Newton as James "Jem" Trehearne
- Frederick Piper as His Agent
- Leslie Banks as Joss Merlyn
- Herbert Lomas as His Tenant
- Marie Ney as Patience Merlyn
- Clare Greet as His Tenant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
54%
Tomatometer
Rotten
By common consent, one of Alfred Hitchcock's poorest and least personal works, though it has some compensations.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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
Rotten
The result is weird, but not wonderful.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
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
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