Jamaica Inn (1939)

6.1/10 100 min Crime Adventure Thriller

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.

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

Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam

Morland Graham

Sydney

Basil Radford

Lord George

George Curzon

Captain Murray

Jeanne De Casalis

Sir Humphrey's Dinner Guest

A. Bromley Davenport

Lord Ringwood

Mabel Terry-Lewis

Lady Beston

Frederick Piper

Davis

Herbert Lomas

Dowland

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