| Jamaica Inn - Jamaica Inn (1939)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Charles Laughton |
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
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| Maureen O'Hara |
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| Horace Hodges |
Chadwick (Sir Humphrey's butler)
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| Hay Petrie |
Sam (Sir Humphrey's groom)
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| Frederick Piper |
Davis (Sir Humphrey's agent)
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| Herbert Lomas |
Sir Humphrey's tenant
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| Clare Greet |
Mrs. Marney (Sir Humphrey's tenant)
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| William Devlin |
Sir Humphrey's tenant
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| Jeanne De Casalis |
Sir Humphrey's friend (as Jeanne de Casalis)
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| Mabel Terry-Lewis |
Sir Humphrey's friend (as Mabel Terry Lewis)
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| A. Bromley Davenport |
Sir Humphrey's friend (as Bromley Davenport)
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| Leslie Banks |
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| Robert Newton |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Alfreid Hitchcock |
| Producer |
Erich Pommer; Charles Laughton |
| Writer |
Daphne Du Maurier; Sidney Gilliat |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
NR (Not Rated) |
| Running Time |
108 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| In Jamaica Inn--a rip-roaring melodrama drawn from a Daphne du Maurier potboiler set in 1820s Cornwall--an innocent young orphan (the 19-year-old Maureen O'Hara in her first starring role) arrives at her uncle's remote Cornish inn to find it a den of reprobates given to smuggling, wrecking, and gross overacting. They're all out-hammed, though, by Charles Laughton at his most corseted and outrageously self-indulgent as the local squire to whom O'Hara runs for help. Since his star was also the coproducer, Alfred Hitchcock couldn't do much with the temperamental actor. He contented himself with adding a few characteristic touches--including a spot of bondage (always a Hitchcock favorite)--and slyly sending up the melodramatic absurdities of the plot. Jamaica Inn hardly stands high in the Master's canon, but it trundles along divertingly enough. Hitchcock fanatics will have fun comparing it with his two subsequent--and far more accomplished--du Maurier adaptations, Rebecca and The Birds. |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
51 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Layers |
Single side, Dual layer |
| UPC |
738329010522 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Subtitles |
Deutsch |
| Packaging |
Amaray schwarz |
| Audio Tracks |
Deutsch: Mono
Englisch: Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Black & White |
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