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Jamaica Inn

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.

6.1(260)19391h 40m5

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$200.4K
Box office
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Language
English
  • sea
  • based on novel or book
  • smuggling (contraband)
  • undercover agent
  • kidnapping
  • shipwreck
  • greed
  • cornwall, england
  • pirate
  • black and white
  • aristocrat
  • multiple murder

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York11 Oct 1939
    • TheatricalNR13 Oct 1939
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG12 May 1939
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical121 Jan 2000
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1523 Oct 1939
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1617 Dec 1939
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTPVisa CNC 4573820 Jul 1939
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1211 May 1939
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical1 Jan 1940
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1511 Sept 1939

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Jamaica Inn was released on 11 May 1939.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/22/2022

    7/10

    Charles Laughton excels as local grandee "Sir Humphrey" in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier's book. The bleak photography and huge great waves help generate a sense of the menace of the evil Cornish wreckers. They are led by Leslie Banks's malevolent "Joss" who is just as cruel to his wife "Patience" (Marie Ney) as he is to any survivors after his men seek to drive ships onto the rocks and make off with the…

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    tmcd77

    11/3/2024

    2/10

    Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock, both of Rebecca fame, what could go wrong? Well, everything really. Dodgy cinematography, even for the time. Charles Laughton hamming it like Matt Lucas. Slow paced. Give this one a hard pass.

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