Film Forum

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Leslie Banks
Screenplay Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville, J. B. Prestley
Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier
Cinematography Bernard Knowles, Harry Stradling
1939 | UK | 4K DCP | Approx. 108 min. | In English

Even as Leslie Banks and his wreckers loot and plunder a ship they’ve lured onto the rocks, newly-orphaned Maureen O’Hara finds the coach doesn’t stop at her aunt’s Jamaican Inn — but luxury-loving squire Charles Laughton can take her in. Screenplay by Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison, from a novel by Rebecca’s Daphne du Maurier.