Jamaica Inn

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Alfred Hitchock's "Jamaica Inn" received mixed critical notices when first released in 1939, but the public loved it. It was a box office hit, revived theatrically several times. As is often the case, the public was right. With Kino On Video's released film, remostered from an archival print, today;s audiences can finall judge for themselves the worth of Hitchock's las prewar pictrue in England, made shortly before his departure for Hollywood, underrated, neglected and unavailable until now, except in grainy editions. The prioject originated as a vehicle for one of the scsreen's greates actors, Charles Laughton, a brilliant performer with an astonishing range. His versatility has bequeathed us a alegacy of indeliable screen protayals, tje m ad empoeror Nero in Cecil B. De Mille's "The Sign Of The Cross", the lusty Henry VII in the film for which he received a Best Actor Oscar, the tile role of Ruggles Of Red Gap", a delicate balance of comedy and seriousness, the autocratic Capatian Bligh in "Mutiny In The Bounty", the touching figure of Quasimodo in "The Hutchback Of Notre Dame", and his two magnificent performances for Hitchcock as the villainous asquire in "Jamacia Inn", and a few uears later, the lecherous judge in The Paradine Case".