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Jamaica Inn(1939)
Status: Released
Date: 1939-05-11
61%
225 Votes
Time: 1h 48m
He ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent.
Overview:
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Budget: $200,436.00
ProductionCompanies:
Mayflower Pictures
Movie: Jamaica Inn
Top 10 Billed Cast
Charles Laughton
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Maureen O'Hara
Mary Yellan
Robert Newton
James "Jem" Trehearne
Leslie Banks
Joss Merlyn
Marie Ney
Patience Merlyn
Horace Hodges
Chadwick
Emlyn Williams
Harry
Wylie Watson
Salvation
Mervyn Johns
Thomas
Hay Petrie
Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
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