He ruled Jamaica Inn...citadel of sin on the moors, curse-ridden, shunned, reviled. Enough sensations for a dozen pictures. Laughton at his most magnificent.
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
sea
based on novel or book
smuggling (contraband)
undercover agent
kidnapping
shipwreck
greed
cornwall, england
black and white
aristocrat
multiple murder
19th century
squire
plunder
cutthroat
loyal wife