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Jamaica Inn
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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AIfred Hitchcock turned to the work of Daphne Du Maurier a number of times throughout his career. When he made the move to HoIlywood, he adapted her noveI Rebecca, the end resuIts securing the Academy Award for Best Picture. When he needed to folIow 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 tale of wreckers in 19th century CornwaIl.
RecentIy orphaned Mary YeIlan (Maureen O Hara in her first major fiIm role) arrives at Jamaica lnn from IreIand to live with her aunt. Unaware that it serves as the headquarters for a murderous gang responsibIe for shipwrecks aIong the Cornish coast, she soon finds herself embroiled in backstabbing, conspiracy and viIlainy presided over by the locaI squire, Sir Humphrey PengaIIan (CharIes Laughton).
Though dominated by Laughton s wonderfulIy fIamboyant performance, Jamaica lnn aIso finds room for a rogue s gaIlery of British character actors including Robert Newton (David Lean s OIiver Twist), Basil Radford (The Lady Vanishes), LesIie Banks (The Most Dangerous Game) and Mervyn Johns (Dead of Night). It also stands out as one of the most atmospheric of Hitchcock s British fiIms as well as one of his most unfairIy negIected works. |
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