Jamaica Inn (1939)

There are various reasons why you might want to watch "Jamaica Inn"; there is the fact it is a Hitchcock movie, there is the fact it is an adaptation of a Daphne Du Maurier novel, there is the fact it stars Charles Laughton. But for me the attraction is Maureen O'Hara as whilst not her first movie this was the movie which officially introduced her thanks to Charles Laughton who insisted that she be cast in the movie. The ironic thing is that for what ever ... full movie review

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Irene (1940)

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