He ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent.
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
$200,436
May 11, 1939
Mayflower Pictures
35 people
Charles Laughton
Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Acting
Maureen O'Hara
Mary Yellan
Acting
Robert Newton
James "Jem" Trehearne
Acting
Leslie Banks
Joss Merlyn
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Marie Ney
Patience Merlyn
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Horace Hodges
Chadwick
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Emlyn Williams
Harry
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Wylie Watson
Salvation
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Mervyn Johns
Thomas
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Hay Petrie
Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
Acting
Edwin Greenwood
Dandy
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Stephen Haggard
Willie
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