Jamaica Inn (1939)
"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."

Title: Jamaica Inn
Original Title: Jamaica Inn
Release Date: 1939-05-11
Status: Released
Rating: 6.1/10 (from 229 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Crime, Adventure, Thriller
Production Companies: Mayflower Pictures
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.
Cast

Charles Laughton
Sir Humphrey Pengallan

Maureen O'Hara
Mary Yellan

Robert Newton
James "Jem" Trehearne

Leslie Banks
Joss Merlyn

Marie Ney
Patience Merlyn

Horace Hodges
Chadwick

Emlyn Williams
Harry

Wylie Watson
Salvation

Mervyn Johns
Thomas

Hay Petrie
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