Jamaica Inn poster
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison

Jamaica Inn

Tagline: Charles Laughton's eyebrows have a lifestyle to maintain and don't care how many sailors die to maintain it.

Release Date: 1939-05-11

Duration: 108 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Maureen O'Hara
    Mary Yellan
  • Robert Newton
    James "Jem" Trehearne
  • Charles Laughton
    Sir Humphrey Pengallan
  • Emlyn Williams
    Harry
  • Mervyn Johns
    Thomas
  • John Longden
    Captain Johnson (uncredited)
  • Frederick Piper
    Davis
  • Leslie Banks
    Joss Merlyn
  • William Devlin
    Burdkin
  • Aubrey Mather
    Coachman (uncredited)