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Jamaica Inn

film by Hitchcock [1939]
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Jamaica Inn is a 1939 Gothic costume film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier. Charles Laughton stars as a country squire who secretly leads a band of pirates. This was Hitchcock's final film made in England before he moved to Hollywood. The film is noted for its suspenseful atmosphere, a hallmark of Hitchcock's directorial style.12

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