This is one of the scariest movies I have seen. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. Charles Laughton was very scary has a murderer. If it does not scary you no movie will. This is a true classic horror flim

In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she is living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.If someone were to say this was not so much an Alfred Hitchcock film as it is a Charles Laughton film, I think that would be a fair assessment. Although Hitchcock made many, many films, his mark is not evident on all of them. And here the powerful presence of Laughton drowns out anything Hitchcock was ding as director.The story itself is interesting, too, and for whatever reason reminds me of the Burke and Hare story. There is no real connection, of course, but I feel like this band of rogues would fit right in with the world of grave robbers.

for Charles Laughton must see this film. for his seductive performance. for his great science to transform a character in an entire story. for the art to give special aura to a film who has not the status of masterpiece. "Jamaica Inn" is a Hitchcock. a version of the book of Daphne de Maurier. a story from XIX century with bandits and the innocent, brave fragile victim. and everything becomes spectacular for the force of an actor to change each scene in a gem. "Jamaica Inn " gives a state more than a credible story. and this is a precious virtue. because it reminds and transforms and imposes pieces of literature in a seductive fragment of old ages.

The last film directed in England by Alfred Hitchcock, "Jamaica Inn" was produced, in part, by Charles Laughton.The story, adapted from a novel by Daphne Du Maurier, begins with a beautiful young woman named Mary (Maureen O'Hara) traveling by coach through a stormy night to meet her estranged aunt and uncle, who reside at Jamaica Inn--a place feared by outsiders. Her aunt Patience receives her with open arms, but Uncle Joss is a leering sort whose associates and business enterprises are suspect.Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton) is a landowner and the region's seat of justice. He represents refined, indulgent nobility. Laughton insisted that the size of his role be increased, effectively changing the film from a whodunit to a suspense film that is part character study. Hitchcock was disappointed, but I think Laughton was correct in casting himself as Pengallan rather than Joss (as originally planned) and then maximizing his role. Laughton's Pengallan is a complex character who displays cunning, eccentricity, and levels of mystery. Despite himself, Hitchcock delivers a film of atmosphere and style. He abstains from his usual cameo, but his hands are all over this moody work of suspense that was a box office hit.After the production of "Jamaica Inn", Laughton and O'Hara would go to Hollywood to produce the wonderful "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Hitchcock would also be lured to Hollywood with the intention of creating a film about The Titanic, but instead would direct "Rebecca", an adaptation of another Du Maurier novel.