Alfred Hitchcock Week - Jamaica Inn

Alfred Hitchcock Week continues here at iMovieCinema with our fourth featured film - Jamaica Inn, starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara and Emlyn Williams.

This 1939 film is an adaptation of Daphne DuMaurier’s novel, Jamaica Inn. Sydney Gilliat wrote the screenplay. The story is set in Cornwall, where a young Irish girl goes to live with her innkeeper uncle and aunt. The girl comes to the realization that a gang of smugglers/pirates is headquartered at the inn.

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