one smuggler who is quite a young teenager who fears for his life if they get caught. When you think about their plight and then see the local squire keeping most of the money from the ship wrecks you see how the rich control the poor and think really how little times have changed overall. Ok so I might be getting carried away here comparing smugglers with big corporates raking in the big bucks and paying their hard working staff low wages in return, but I'm trying to find something positive to come out of the film for me and if that's making comparisons between the way the rich and poor behaved 200 years ago and now, please forgive me!

Jamaica Inn is definitely not Hitchcock's finest hour by any stretch of the imagination. I'd go as far as to say that this is the worst Hitchcock film I've seen and I've seen quite a few. I found the music in the film quite intrusive and it could certainly have done with being toned down a few notches. All in all I would give the film a weak 4 out of 10 and not recommend it unless you're a diehard Hitchcock fan and have to see everything he was ever involved in!

TECHNICAL STUFF:

Film released in 1939

Run time is 98 minutes

Screenplay by Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison

Music by Eric Fenby

Format black and white

DVD release date: various versions 2000 and after

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