| Jamaica Inn | |
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Written by | Sidney Gilliat Joan Harrison Alma Reville J. B. Priestley |
| Based on | Jamaica Inn 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier |
| Produced by | Erich Pommer Charles Laughton |
| Starring | Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara Leslie Banks Robert Newton |
| Cinematography | Bernard Knowles Harry Stradling |
| Edited by | Robert Hamer |
| Music by | Eric Fenby |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Associated British Picture Corporation[2] |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes 100 minutes (original US release)[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £200,436[3] |
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.
- ^ a b c "Alfred Hitchcock Collectors' Guide: Jamaica Inn (1939)". Brenton Film. 16 February 2021.
- ^ "Jamaica Inn (1939)". BBFC. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ^ Chapman, Llewella. "'The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England". Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. Vol. 19, no. 4. Edinburgh University Press. p. 470-494 at 474.