Jamaica Inn

(1939)

99 minutes

Adventure / Crime / Drama

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Cast:

Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey Pengallan 
Marie Ney as Patience, His Wife 
Maureen O'Hara as Mary, His Niece
Horace Hodges as His Butler 
Hay Petrie as His Groom 
Frederick Piper as His Agent 
Herbert Lomas as His Tenant 
Clare Greet as His Tenant 
William Devlin as His Tenant 
Jeanne de Casalis as His Friend 
Mabel Terry-Lewis as His Friend 
Bromley Davenport as His Friend 
George Curzon as His Friend 
Basil Radford as His Friend 
Leslie Banks as Joss Merlyn

Mary is a young orphan girl in Cornwall who is ordered to live with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the proprietors of the Jamaica Inn. Mary quickly discovers that the inn is being used by a group of ship wreckers to attract ships to crash on the staggering coast. The young girl becomes frightened that they will discover her knowing about their secret.