Episode Details

(1939,UK, historical adventure|crime, b&w)
Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock. Writers:  Sidney Gilliat (screen play), Joan Harrison (screen play).  Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams.

In 1800, a young orphaned woman arrives at Jamaica Inn on the Cornwall coast to stay with her aunt and uncle and soon learns the place is a den of pirates who cause shipwrecks in the area and plunder the cargo.