Jamaica Inn

Name: Jamaica Inn
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime
Released: October 13, 1939
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 52

1939

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 13, 1939 | Passed

Summary: In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Crime

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 98 min

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Clayton Dillard

Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn would have been better titled The Gangs of Jamaica Inn, since the film is thoroughly concerned with groupings, allegiances, and the ways class standing relates to moral obligation. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Superb direction, excellent casting, expressive playing and fine production offset an uneven screenplay to make Jamaica Inn a gripping version of the Daphne du Maurier novel. Read full review

Craig J. Clark

With Hitchcock halfway out the door, Jamaica Inn could have come across as strictly a work-for-hire gig, but it displays enough Hitchcockery to show he wasn’t as disengaged from the material as he would later claim he was. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

While the star himself effortlessly commands attention, the film around him too often collapses in a welter of rhubarbing locals, piffling model work, and the most cardboard sets Elstree could offer. The result is weird, but not wonderful. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

This adaptation doesn’t entirely founder on the rocks. But the viewer is a couple of steps ahead of the action, start to finish. The innocents take forever to figure out the obvious. Read full review

Frank S. Nugent

Jamaica Inn will not be remembered as a Hitchcock picture, but as a Charles Laughton picture. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

JAMAICA INN had many interesting incidents associated with it. Unfortunately, very little of that interest reached the screen. Read full review

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