JAMAICA INN
DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK
PRODUCED BY ERICH POMMER/ CHARLES LAUGHTON
MAYFLOWER PICTURES CORPORATION
PARAMOUNT PICTURES
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Plot Summary
This pirate story set in Cornwall, is of young Irish orphan girl Mary,
sent to stay with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss, who is
the landlord of the Jamaica Inn.
She soon realizes, that the Inn is the base for a gang
of pirates, who lure the ships to their doom on
the nearby rocky coast, she soon fear for her life.
Wtitten by ethanedwards
Full Cast
Charles Laughton .... Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Maureen O'Hara .... Mary (Patience's niece)
Leslie Banks .... Joss Merlyn
Emlyn Williams .... Harry (the peddler)
Robert Newton .... James 'Jem' Trehearne
Marie Ney .... Patience Merlyn (Joss' wife))
Wylie Watson .... Salvation Watkins
Morland Graham .... Sea Lawyer Sydney
Edwin Greenwood .... Dandy
Mervyn Johns .... Thomas
Stephen Haggard .... The boy
Horace Hodges .... Chadwick (Sir Humphrey's butler)
Hay Petrie .... Sam (Sir Humphrey's groom)
Frederick Piper .... Davis (Sir Humphrey's agent)
Herbert Lomas .... Sir Humphrey's tenant
Clare Greet .... Mrs. Marney (Sir Humphrey's tenant)
Jeanne De Casalis .... Sir Humphrey's friend (as Jeanne de Casalis)
A. Bromley Davenport .... Sir Humphrey's friend (as Bromley Davenport)
Mabel Terry-Lewis .... Sir Humphrey's friend (as Mabel Terry Lewis)
George Curzon .... Sir Humphrey's friend
Basil Radford .... Sir Humphrey's friend
William Devlin .... Sir Humphrey's tenant
Robert Adair .... Capt. Murray (uncredited)
Marie Ault .... Coach Passenger (uncredited)
O.B. Clarence .... Coach passenger (uncredited)
William Fazan .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Archie Harradine .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Mary Jerrold .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Harry Lane .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Sam Lee .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Alan Lewis .... Bit Part (uncredited)
John Longden .... Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
Aubrey Mather .... Coachman (uncredited)
Philip Ray .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Peter Scott .... Bit Part (uncredited)
A. George Smith .... Bit Part (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
Sidney Gilliat (screenplay) &
Joan Harrison (screenplay)
Sidney Gilliat (dialogue)
Alma Reville (continuity)
J.B. Priestley (additional dialogue)
Produced
Erich Pommer .... producer
Charles Laughton .... producer (uncredited)
Original Music
Eric Fenby
Cinematography
Bernard Knowles (photography: in collaboration with)
Harry Stradling Sr. (as Harry Stradling)
TriviaWas reportedly one of Alfred Hitchcock's most unhappy directing jobs. He felt caught between Charles Laughton and Laughton's business partners. Later, he said that he did not so much direct the film as referee it.
Alfred Hitchcock made no cameo appearance in this movie.
This was the first of three Daphne Du Maurier tales that Alfred Hitchcock made into movies. The other two were Rebecca and The Birds.
This was the last movie that Alfred Hitchcock made in England before going to Hollywood under contract to David O. Selznick.
Maureen O'Hara was "Introduced" in the opening titles.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
Goofs
Continuity: In the first scene where the wreckers are assembled at the inn, Dandy's many tattoos are shown in close-up and are featured prominently as he recalls a past love affair commemorated in one of them. Yet in one tableau view of the gang from that same scene, there's not a single tattoo to be seen on his chest under his open coat.
Revealing mistakes: After Trehearne and Mary escape from the villains by swimming out to their boat, they wind up seeking refuge at Pengallan's home. While still in his soaking clothes, Trehearne pulls a dry folded piece of paper from his pocket.
Continuity: When Trehearne and Sir Humphrey are sharing a drink, the Squire drinks holding the glass with his left hand and sets it down using his right.
Continuity: A wave comes up, about to crash over the left side of the ship (in the opening scene). In the next shot, the wave is coming from behind.
Continuity: When Mary takes off Jem's rope, she is on his left side. In the next shot, she is on his right.
Continuity: As Jem and Sir Humphrey Pengallan are being tied up, one of the men adjusts Jem's scarf and it's almost horizontal but in the next shot it's vertical.
Continuity: In the scene where Jem and Sir Humphrey are tied up, the chain that connects the two sides of Sir Humphrey's cloak is high on his chest in some shots and right below his chin on other shots.
Continuity: After Mary has been tied up and the cloak has been placed on her, the amount of her face that is visible under the hood varies between shots.
Continuity: When Jem is talking to Sir Humphrey's servants to ask where he is, there are no shadows on his back in shots from far away but during the close-ups, there are many shadows of tree branches on his back.
Continuity: SPOILER: Immediately after Sir Humphrey shoots Patience, he is seen holding a gun. But in a subsequent shot, the gun has disappeared.
Continuity: SPOILER: Right before Sir Humphrey ties up Mary's mouth, his hand jumps to being on her shoulder even though it is not there in shots before and after.
Continuity: SPOILER: When the men are being arrested, one of the men has a strip of fabric hanging from the right side of his head. In a later shot, it is hanging from the left side of his head and he could not have changed it because his hands were tied.
Filming Locations
Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
(studio)
Cornwall, England, UK
(exteriors)
Jamaica Inn, Bolventor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, UK
(exteriors)
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