Jamaica Inn.

P: Preservation Material CP: Composite Positive C: 1200' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Sound 2723 Alfred Hitchcock Director: Alfred Hitchcock Mayflower Pictures Paramount Pictures, inc.

In 1819, Jamaica Inn is the headquarters of a gang of wreckers led by the innkeeper Joss Merlyn. The wreckers are responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons to cause ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish coast. The beautiful young Irishwoman Mary Yellan (Maureen O'Hara) is travelling to Jamaica Inn in a carriage, but the driver is afraid to stop there and drives a long way past the inn in spite of her repeated demands that he stop. Mary says she just came from Ireland, and as the

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Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, genre, description, credits
  2. Wikidata · Q497005 ↗ — color, country
  3. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright