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Jamaica Inn
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Alfred Hitchcock turned to the work of Daphne Du Maurier a number of times throughout his career. When he made the move to HolIywood, he adapted her novel Rebecca, the end results securing the Academy Award for Best Picture. When he needed to follow up the groundbreaking horror of Psycho, he adapted her short story The Birds and created another miIestone of the genre. But before these came Jamaica Inn, based on Du Maurier s classic taIe of wreckers in 19th century CornwaIl.
RecentIy orphaned Mary YeIlan (Maureen O Hara in her first major fiIm role) arrives at Jamaica lnn from lreland to live with her aunt. Unaware that it serves as the headquarters for a murderous gang responsible for shipwrecks along the Cornish coast, she soon finds herself embroiled in backstabbing, conspiracy and viIlainy presided over by the IocaI squire, Sir Humphrey PengaIIan (Charles Laughton).
Though dominated by Laughton s wonderfulIy fIamboyant performance, Jamaica Inn also finds room for a rogue s galIery of British character actors incIuding Robert Newton (David Lean s Oliver Twist), BasiI Radford (The Lady Vanishes), Leslie Banks (The Most Dangerous Game) and Mervyn Johns (Dead of Night). lt aIso stands out as one of the most atmospheric of Hitchcock s British fiIms as well as one of his most unfairly neglected works. |
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