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Jamaica Inn [videorecording (DVD)].

Kino on Video, 1998.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (98 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.

Videodisc release of the 1939 motion picture.

Verity Films ; a Pommer-Laughton production ; screenplay by Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison ; dialogue, Sidney Gilliat ; produced by Erich Pommer ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; ; photography, Harry Stradling, Bernard Knowles ; music, Eric Fenby ; film editor, Robert Hamer.

Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks and Robert Newton.

"Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from Hitchcock's early British period before he left for the Hollywood studio system and David O. Selznick. In the England of the 1800s, a group of ruthless smugglers, led by Sir Humphrey Pengallon (Charles Laughton), prey on ships by blacking out warning signals. When the ships crash on the rocks, the nefarious group loots the remains and kills the sailors. The plot kicks in when the beautiful orphan Mary Yelland (Maureen O'Hara) goes to visit her uncle Joss Merlyn (Leslie Banks) at a creepy hotel called the Jamaica Inn, the home of the gang of smugglers. Mary doesn't realize that Uncle Joss is one of them. Meanwhile, Lloyd's of London sends one of their ablest men, Jem Trahearne (Robert Newton), to investigate the recurring shipwrecks. Jem checks in to the Jamaica Inn, and when the coven of smugglers finds out who he is, they capture him and attempt to kill him. But Mary comes to his rescue and saves him. Through the inn, the smugglers try to recapture Jem -- along with Mary. Thrown together by dire circumstances, the two fall in love. Meanwhile, all the shenanigans occurring at the Jamaica Inn appear to be driving Pengallon insane. ~ by Paul Brenner"--Allmovie. com.

Adventure films.

Romantic adventure films.

Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989. Jamaica Inn.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962.

O'Hara, Maureen, 1920-2015.

Banks, Leslie, 1890-1952.

Newton, Robert, 1905-1956.

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