Overview:
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.| Status: | Released (1939-05-11) |
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| Screen: | Daphne Du Maurier, Sidney Gilliat, Joan Harrison |
| Productions: | Mayflower Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 70035: Maureen O'Hara - Mary Yellan
- 29520: Robert Newton - James "Jem" Trehearne
- 20502: Leslie Banks - Joss Merlyn
- 125512: Marie Ney - Patience Merlyn
- 552407: Horace Hodges - Chadwick
- 66884: Emlyn Williams - Harry
Crews
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Director - Directing
- 67: Erich Pommer - Producer - Production
- 552406: Molly McArthur - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 70864: Robert Hamer - Editor - Editing
- 552405: Eric Fenby - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 10921: Charles Laughton - Producer - Production
- 37468: Thomas N. Morahan - Set Decoration - Art
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Reviews
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Charles Laughton excels as local grandee "Sir Humphrey" in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier's book. The bleak photography and huge great waves help generate a sense of the menace of the evil Cornish wreckers. They are led by Leslie Banks's malevolent "Joss" who is just as c ....
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Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock, both of Rebecca fame, what could go wrong? Well, everything really. Dodgy cinematography, even for the time. Charles Laughton hamming it like Matt Lucas. Slow paced. Give this one a hard pass.
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