A High Wind in Jamaica (film)

A High Wind in Jamaica
Original film poster by Howard Terpning
Directed byAlexander Mackendrick
Screenplay byStanley Mann
Ronald Harwood
Denis Cannan
Based onA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Produced byJohn Croydon
StarringAnthony Quinn
James Coburn
Lila Kedrova
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byDerek York
Music byLarry Adler
Mike LeRoy
Production
company
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • 26 May 1965 (1965-05-26) (Los Angeles)[1]
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,260,000[2]

A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick[3] for the 20th Century-Fox studio. It stars Anthony Quinn and James Coburn as the pirates who capture five children. Other cast members include Deborah Baxter, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Lila Kedrova, Kenneth J. Warren, and Gert Frobe. One of the child actors is the author Martin Amis.

  1. ^ "A High Wind in Jamaica - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference fox was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Weiler, A.H. (2011). "Carried by the Wind". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2008.