Jamaica Inn
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 3 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 5, 2015
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Acorn
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jessica Brown Findlay, Sean Harris, Matthew McNulty & Joanne Whalley | |
| Performer: | Ben Daniels, Shirley Henderson, Tristan Sturrock & Christopher Fairbank | |
| Directed by | Philippa Lowthorpe | |
| Original story by | Daphne du Maurier | |
| Cinematography by | Julian Court |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Superb direction, excellent casting, expressive playing and fine production offset an uneven screenplay to make Jamaica Inn a gripping version of the Daphne du Maurier novel.
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Variety
The result is weird, but not wonderful.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It could have come across as strictly a work-for-hire gig, but it displays enough Hitchcockery to show he wasn't as disengaged from the material as he would later claim he was.
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The Dissolve
Having set his own standards, Alfred Hitchcock must be judged by them; and, by them, his Jamaica Inn is merely journeyman melodrama.
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New York Times
Jamaica Inn is a fraud perpetrated with great names.
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The Nation
Laughton is compelling from the first instant: His Pengallan is at least five of the seven deadly sins rolled into one, a cheerfully loathsome creature with wide-set eyebrows and a multitude of chins ...
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Village Voice
By common consent, one of Alfred Hitchcock's poorest and least personal works, though it has some compensations.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
In this mini-series adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel Jamaica Inn, Mary Yellan (Jessica Brown Findlay) goes to live at the Jamaica Inn with her Aunt Patience (Joanne Whalley) and Uncle Joss (Sean Harris) after the death of her mother. When Mary notices that there are no guests staying at the inn, she figures out that her uncle is using it for nefarious purposes.
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Product Info
- UPC: 054961233496
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