Cornwall, England in the 19th century, a young woman (O'Hara) is sent to live with her Aunt (Ney) and Uncle (Laughton), the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. What she doesn't realise is that her uncle, a respected citizen of those parts, is actually involved with gangs of pirates who are luring ships to their doom on the rocky coast.
This was the first of three stories by Daphne Du Maurier that Alfred Hitchcock filmed; the others being Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963).A decent TV-movie version was made in 1983.
A note about the DVD prints: Some of the screenshots provided here were taken from a very blurry release from Mill Creek Entertainment. However, the credits, stills and some other screenshots are from the re-mastered Region 2 itv-DVD edition. |