the early nineteenth, a young Irish girl, Mary, joined her aunt Patience in Cornwall, whose husband, Joss is an inn lost in the moors, "The Tavern of Jamaica." She eventually discovered gradually it is a den of robbers and decides to take refuge with Sir Humphrey Pengallan a disturbing justice ...
Jamaica Inn is the latest film from Hitchcock's English period and is also his first adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca before the next year and Birds much later. The Tavern Jamaica is nowhere near its two future attempts but is a perfect example of the method Hitchcock (despite large infidelities) respects the setting, events, the plot and characters of the novel for fold completely his vision.
The art of suspense Hitchcock does not work on the twists and sensational twist, but rather on how to expand by creating an expectation between what characters know and the audience all the anxiety and tension arising from this shift. It has a perfect example here where Hitchcock deconstructs completely linear and predictable pattern of Du Maurier (novel a bit boring only interesting for its atmosphere). The criminal activity of wreckers of the wicked was revealed that half of the book, Hitchcock does not make a secret and the film opens on a spectacular shipwreck where all the thugs bestiality is revealed when we complete the few survivors to seize their property. The same deception of the big bad at the same time confidante of the heroine and leader of the organization, great mystery in the book is known immediately, even if the character of paper is completely changed with Charles Laughton as the libidinous nobleman physically repulsive (damn makeup!). 
All the tension is thus organized around ignoring the danger still run Mary (Maureen O'Hara) in Jamaica Inn and dangerous criminals to the mines threatening There she meets. Hitchcock plays remarkably well on the chronology of events of this book entirely devoted to speed and spectacular with a much stronger effect as the scene where Laughton kills coldly Aunt Patience about to reveal his role in the affair. 
had often complained about how cramped he had in England, Hitchcock has the largest capacity on the film, be it the costumes where amazing footage of the sinking. The heavy atmosphere of the book is remarkably transcribed through the breathtaking views of the cliffs of Cornwall and the decor very successful the famous inn which the director uses the space very well for such a suspenseful scene Hangman again more exciting than its paper equivalent. But the film lacks pace, and going forward rather laboriously from the perspective desired by Hitchcock. 
So the players who catch a little shaky narrative interest. Charles Laughton is again fabulous and offers a spectacular introduction to the subject at its protected Maureen O'Hara has discovered and imposed on the film (before taking him with him to the U.S. to turn the Quasimodo of Dieterle with great career as we know). A youth, a beautiful and spirited she dies already dazzling screen and trade with all its excellent Laughton, the first where he undresses her eyes literally (it is rumored that he was in love in reality) or the final flight to unhealthy sexual tension (with an inexplicable dialogue in which she defends him before his spectacular crash) ... So not a great film, but a good little lesson to know how the Master of Suspense. released on DVD by Universal Zone 2 French
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