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Jamaica Inn

UK 1939
produced by
Erich Pommer for Mayflower Pictures
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
starring Maureen O'Hara, Charles Laughton, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Marie Ney, Emlyn Williams, Wylie Watson, Morland Graham, Edwin Greenwood, Mervyn Johns, Stephen Haggard, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie, Frederick Piper, Herbert Lomas, Clare Greet, William Devlin, Jeanne De Casalis, Mabel Terry Lewis, A.Bromley Davenport, George Curzon, Basil Radford, Robert Adair, Mary Jerrold, John Longden
screenplay by Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison, additional dialogue by J.B. Proetley, based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, music by Eric Fenby

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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After her mother has died, Mary (Maureen O'Hara) goes to Jamaica Inn, an inn on the coast, to live with her aunt Patience (Marie Ney) ... not knowing that Patience's husband Joss (Leslie Banks) is actually the head of a gang of looters who intentionally remove beacons along the coast at night to make ships wreck, then empty them of their cargo and killing the crew.

Mary finds out when the men hang one of their ranks, Trehearne (Robert Newton), whom they think to be a traitor - but in an unguarded moment, Mary cuts Trehearne, who has not yet died, down, and the two make a daring escape ... and somehow make it to the local squire, Sir Humphrey (Charles Laughton), where Trehearne reveals himself to be an undercover agent, asking for the squire's help in stopping the looters. Thing is though, Sir Humphrey is secretly the looters' head (which only Joss knows) - and when he accompanies Trehearne to Jamaica Inn to arrest Joss and his men, he does everything in his power to have himself, Trehearne and Marie apprehended by Joss and company instead.

Soon, the looters are off to the coast with Mary to wreck another ship while the squire finally shows his true colours to Trehearne by simply walking out of captivity and telling joss's wife to keep an extra eye on him - but Trehearne somehow persuades Patience to let him go as well, to fetch a battalion of soldiers and put an end to all the looting and killing.

In the meantime, Mary has somehow evaded her captors and replaced the missing beacon with her own burning coat, making the ship Joss and company were going to wreck to turn away from the coast just in time - but the men of course find her out soon enough, and immediately want to take care of her - but her uncle Joss saves her from certain death (and possible gangrape), but is shot in the back by his men for his efforts.

Mary manages to bring Joss home, barely alive, and she and his aunt try to bring him around - without success - and then the aunt, who was about to tell Mary everything she knows (especially about Joss's involvement with the squire), is shot as well ... by none other than the squire, who has made up his mind and decided to make an escape to Greece - with Mary, whom he is planning to marry, even if he has to tie her up for the rest of her life.

The squire and Mary are already boarding their ship to Greece when Trehearne and the soldiers arrive at the inn to arrest the looters, then they rush to catch Sir Humphrey's boat, and only just make it in time. Finding himself cornered, Sir Humphrey climbs up the main sail and throws himself to his death, while Mary of course is saved.

 


One of the weaker (if more prominent) films from Alfred Hitchcock's British period. Basically, for this one, Hitchcock has married his thriller routines with elements of the adventure- and pirate-movie ... but somehow, Hitchcock's cinema does not work quite as well in a period setting, and some of the film's plot elements seem awfully clichéd, which doesn't help the film too much either. Still, if you dont expect Alfred hitchcock at the height of his game and are in the mood for an old-fashioned adventure movie with an enjoyably over-acting Charles Laughton, Jamaica Inn wil probably entertain you.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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