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Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Marie Ney
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Jamaica Inn |
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Based on a Daphne Du Maurier novel, JAMAICA INN is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939.
Robert Newton, a police officer, and Maureen O'Hara, discover that the Jamaica Inn is a den of criminals who organize shipwrecks near the dangerous Cornwall coast. The crews of the ships are then slaughtered and the freights stolen.
Newton and O'Hara will trust at first the landlord Charles Laughton to help them but it'll soon appear that big Charles is the mastermind of the gang.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Jamaica Inn |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- stolen goods organization
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- fat (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish/McCourt
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Water?
Yes
Water:
- peddle boat
- swimming on
Misc setting
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- hanging
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
Is this movie based on a
- book
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