Jamaica Inn (film)

Jamaica Inn
US theatrical release poster
Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Written bySidney Gilliat
Joan Harrison
Alma Reville
J. B. Priestley
Based onJamaica Inn
1936 novel
by Daphne du Maurier
Produced byErich Pommer
Charles Laughton
StarringCharles Laughton
Maureen O'Hara
Leslie Banks
Robert Newton
CinematographyBernard Knowles
Harry Stradling
Edited byRobert Hamer
Music byEric Fenby
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British Picture Corporation[2]
Release date
  • 15 May 1939 (1939-05-15)
Running time
108 minutes
100 minutes (original US release)[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It is the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel Rebecca and short story "The Birds"). It stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States.[1]

The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820, in the real Jamaica Inn (which still exists) on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

  1. ^ a b c "Alfred Hitchcock Collectors' Guide: Jamaica Inn (1939)". Brenton Film. 16 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Jamaica Inn (1939)". BBFC. Retrieved 3 December 2023.