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Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Starring Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton

1939

This was Hitchcock's last English production before his timely immigration to America. The production is lush, a superb example of the pre-war golden age of film.

Maureen O'Hara has lost her family and has come to stay with her aunt, mistress of the Jamaica Inn on the English coast, circa 1800. Unfortunately it turns out that the Inn is actually a den of thieves, run under the rule of a very greedy 19th century Lord, played by Laughton.

Some critics don't consider this a good example of the Hitchcock style, which may be true. It is also though a very well made classic thriller which exposes the various criminal foibles to which the upper classes are subject - presumably the same class as some of the so-called 'critics'. Note also that the resemblance between Laughton and Hitchcock, in his older years, is uncanny. :-)

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