Jamaica Inn

The Jamaica Inn is a Free House on the borders of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Famous for being the base of smugglers in the past it is most commonly known as the setting for Daphne du Maurier's novel by the same name.

A film was made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from the novel, in 1939. It starred Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara and was considered one of his lesser films. The score was written by Eric Fenby.

Singer Tori Amos paid tribute to the Inn in her song "Jamaica Inn" on her 2005 album "The Beekeeper".

External link

• Jamaica Inn at the Internet Movie Database

Alfred Hitchcock's films

The Pleasure Garden | The Mountain Eagle | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Downhill | Easy Virtue | The Ring | The Farmer's Wife | Champagne | The Manxman | Blackmail | Juno and the Paycock | Murder! | The Skin Game | Number Seventeen | Rich and Strange | Waltzes from Vienna | The Man Who Knew Too Much | The 39 Steps | Secret Agent | Sabotage | Young and Innocent | The Lady Vanishes | Jamaica Inn | Rebecca | Foreign Correspondent | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Suspicion | Saboteur | Shadow of a Doubt | Lifeboat | Spellbound | Notorious | The Paradine Case | Rope | Under Capricorn | Stage Fright | Strangers on a Train | I Confess | Dial M for Murder | Rear Window | To Catch a Thief | The Trouble With Harry | The Man Who Knew Too Much | The Wrong Man | Vertigo | North by Northwest | Psycho | The Birds | Marnie | Torn Curtain | Topaz | Frenzy | Family Plot

See also: Jamaica Inn, 1939, 2005, Alfred Hitchcock, Blackmail (1929 film), Bodmin Moor, Champagne (movie)