🎥 Jamaica Inn - 1939 - Charles Laughton - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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The film is set in 1820 (at the start of the reign of King George IV, as mentioned by Pengallan in his first scene).

Over and above its function as a hostelry, Jamaica Inn houses the clandestine rural headquarters of a gang of cut-throats and thieves, led by innkeeper Joss Merlyn.

They have become wreckers, responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons, causing ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast. They then kill the surviving sailors and steal their cargo.

One evening, a young Irish woman, Mary Yellan, is dropped off by coach near the inn, at the home of the local squire and justice of the peace, Sir Humphrey Pengallan. She requests the loan of a horse so she can ride to Jamaica Inn to reunite with her Aunt Patience (the wife of Joss Merlyn). Despite Pengallan's warnings, she intends to live at Jamaica Inn with her late mother's sister.

It transpires that Pengallan is the secret criminal mastermind behind the wrecking gang; he learns from his well-to-do friends and acquaintances when well-laden ships are passing near the coast, determines when and where the wrecks are to be caused, and fences the stolen cargo. He uses the lion's share of the proceeds to support his lavish lifestyle and passes a small fraction of them to Joss and the gang.

In another part of the inn, the gang convenes to discuss why they get so little money for their efforts. They suspect Jem Trehearne, a gang member for only two months, of embezzling goods. They hang him from one of the rafters of the inn, but when they leave, Mary cuts the rope and saves his life.

Trehearne and Mary flee the gang by hiding in a cave that is only accessible by a row boat. The next morning the boat drifts away and their location is discovered. They narrowly avoid capture by swimming for their lives.

After reaching the shore they seek the protection of Pengallan, unaware that he is the gang's benefactor. Trehearne reveals to Pengallan that he is actually an undercover law officer on a mission to investigate the wrecks.

Pengallan is alarmed but maintains his composure and pretends to join forces with Trehearne. Mary overhears their conversation and goes to the inn to warn Patience that she must flee in order to avoid being arrested as an accomplice. However, Patience refuses to leave her husband.

The plot thickens ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : Alfred Hitchcock
Written by : Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville and J. B. Priestley
Based on : Jamaica Inn 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier
Produced by : Erich Pommer and Charles Laughton
Cinematography : Bernard Knowles and Harry Stradling
Edited by : Robert Hamer
Music by : Eric Fenby
Production Company : Mayflower Productions
Distributed by : Paramount Pictures (US)
Release Date : 15 May 1939

✅ Cast :

Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Leslie Banks as Joss Merlyn
Maureen O'Hara as Mary Yellen
Robert Newton as James 'Jem' Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Marie Ney as Patience Merlyn
Horace Hodges as Butler (Chadwick)
Hay Petrie as Groom (Sam)
Frederick Piper as Agent (Davis)
Herbert Lomas as Tenant (Dowland)
Clare Greet as Tenant (Granny Tremarney)
William Devlin as Tenant (Burdkin)
Emlyn Williams as Harry the Pedlar - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Jeanne de Casalis as Sir Humphrey's friend
Mabel Terry-Lewis as Lady Beston
A. Bromley Davenport as Ringwood (credited as Bromley Davenport)
George Curzon as Captain Murray
Basil Radford as Lord George
Wylie Watson as Salvation Watkins - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Morland Graham as Sea Lawyer Sydney - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Edwin Greenwood as Dandy - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Mervyn Johns as Thomas - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Stephen Haggard as The Boy, Willie Penhale - Sir Humphrey's Gang
John Longden as Captain Johnson
Aubrey Mather as Coachman

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Inn_(film)

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