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Jamaica Inn
Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic about the young woman, Mary, who is sent to live with her uncle the landlord of Jamaica Inn on the wilds of Dartmoor. Working as a barmaid Mary discovers that her uncle is head of a gang of pirates who rob the wreckage of ships after they have lured them onto the rocks in heavy seas. Mary soon finds that her own life is in danger when the thieves discover that she knows their secret.
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Granada Ventures Ltd Jamaica Inn [1939]
It's generally acknowledged that the Master of Suspense disliked costume dramas and <I>Jamaica Inn</I>--a rip-roaring melodrama drawn from a Daphne du Maurier pot-boiler, set in 1820s Cornwall--is about as costumed as they come. So what was he doing directing it? Killing time, essentially. In 1939 Hitchcock was due to leave Britain for Hollywood, but delays Stateside left him with time on his hands. Never one to sit idle, he agreed to make one picture for Mayflower Productions, a new outfit formed by actor Charles Laughton and émigré German producer Erich Pommer. <p> 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 Laughton at his most corseted and outrageously self-indulgent as the local squire to whom Maureen runs for help. Since his star was also the co-producer, Hitch 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 favourite), and the chief villain's final spectacular plunge from a high place--and slyly sending up the melodramatic absurdities of the plot. <I>Jamaica Inn</I> 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, <I>Rebecca</I> and <I>The Birds</I>. --<I>Philip Kemp</I>
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Jamaica Inn
Mary Yellan, recently orphaned, goes to live with her aunt at Jamaica Inn. Stark and forbidding, and standing alone on Bodmin Moor, its very walls are tainted with corruption. A classic tale of smuggling and Cornish secrets, and Mary - who must observe it all alone. author: Maurier, Daphne Du; publisher: Hodder Headline Audiobooks
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JAMAICA INN
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