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Jamaica Inn Overview:

Jamaica Inn (1939) was a Adventure - Crime Film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Charles Laughton and Erich Pommer.

SYNOPSIS

The last British Hitchcock, and the first of his adaptations of a Daphne du Maurier novel (he achieved an immediate Hollywood success with Rebecca the following year). A vicious band of highwaymen, led by nobleman Laughton, create havoc on the 19th-century Cornwall moors. A young woman (O'Hara) who visits her aunt discovers she's residing in a haven for the criminals. Careful, literal filmmaking, but interesting to see the master ready to spread his wings and truly fly. An early role for the stunningly beautiful O'Hara; she and Laughton teamed again the same year for the indelible Hunchback of Notre Dame.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Jamaica Inn BlogHub Articles:

Watching 1939: Jamaica Inn (1939)

on Oct 15, 2021 From Comet Over Hollywood

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, tha... Read full article

Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara check in at “Jamaica Inn”

By Stephen Reginald on Apr 23, 2021 From Classic Movie Man

Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara check in at “Jamaica Inn” Jamaica Inn (1939) is a British period adventure movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The s... Read full article

Hitchcock Didn’t Get Jamaica Inn; Vince Gilligan Would

By Judy on Apr 10, 2016 From Cary Grant Won't Eat You

**Warning: Some spoilers (though I don’t reveal the mastermind in the novel; Hitchcock alters the story enough for it still to be a mystery). I just finished watching Breaking Bad, and was struck by the thematic similarities between it and Jamaica Inn, one of my favorite novels as a teen. Both... Read full article

Hitchcock Didn’t Get Jamaica Inn; Vince Gilligan Would

By Judy on Apr 10, 2016 From Cary Grant Won't Eat You

**Warning: Some spoilers (though I don’t reveal the mastermind in the novel; Hitchcock alters the story enough for it still to be a mystery). I just finished watching Breaking Bad, and was struck by the thematic similarities between it and Jamaica Inn, one of my favorite novels as a teen. Both... Read full article

JAMAICA INN On Blu-ray

By Dan Day Jr. on May 22, 2015 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

A couple years ago, I raved about the Cohen Media Group's Blu-ray release of the Douglas Fairbanks silent epic THE THIEF OF BAGDAD. Now Cohen has come out with a stunning restoration of one of the most obscure Alfred Hitchcock films, 1939's JAMAICA INN. Whenever I have tried to watch JAMAICA INN be... Read full article

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Jamaica Inn Quotes:

Jem Trehearne: That's women for you - save your life one minute, frightened of you the next. I guess I'm not a very pretty sight at the moment, but I don't bite, you know.
Sir Humphrey Pengallan: [to Mary] Bah, stop crying! Stop it, you little fool! Be beautiful! Oh, ply those tears if you like, but you must be beautiful. Well, you have to be hard now. The Age of Chivalry is gone.
Coachman: That place - Jamaica Inn. It's got a bad name. It's not healthy, that's why. There's queer things goes on there.
Sir Humphrey Pengallan: Chadwick, my figurine. I need inspiration again. There's beauty!
Lady: But it's not alive!
Sir Humphrey Pengallan: More alive than half the people here.
Sir Humphrey Pengallan: What are you all waiting for? A spectacle? You shall have it and tell your children how the great age ended. Make way for Pengallon!
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Jamaica Inn Facts
Maureen O'Hara was "Introduced" in the opening titles.
Alfred Hitchcock made no cameo appearance in this movie.
Was reportedly one of Alfred Hitchcock's most unhappy directing jobs. He felt caught between Charles Laughton and Laughton's business partners. Later, he said that he did not so much direct the film as referee it.
This was the first of three Daphne Du Maurier tales that Alfred Hitchcock made into movies. The other two were Rebecca and The Birds.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
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