• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1939-05-11
  • Runtime108 minutes
  • TaglineHe ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent.
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreCrime, Adventure, Thriller
  • Production
    CompaniesMayflower Pictures
  • Budget200,436$

Movie Overview

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

Casts

Charles Laughton

Maureen O'Hara

Robert Newton

Leslie Banks

Marie Ney

Horace Hodges

Emlyn Williams

Wylie Watson

Mervyn Johns

Hay Petrie

Morland Graham

Basil Radford

George Curzon

Jeanne De Casalis

A. Bromley Davenport

Mabel Terry-Lewis

Frederick Piper

Herbert Lomas

Clare Greet