Advantages: Interesting concepts in the film about olden days and smuggling? Disadvantages: Poor acting from all main characters, poor direction from Hitchchcock
JamaicaInn was Alfred Hitchcock?s last film he directed in the UK before leaving us for the US and it seems his mind wasn?t really in it as you might be able to tell from my review below. The film was an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel (which had the same name) and starred Maureen O?Hara, Charles Laughton, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks and Marie Ney.
In the 1800s Bodmin Moor in Cornwall was rife with smugglers, JamaicaInn was famous for being a base for smugglers and smugglers would deliberately lure ships in order to wreck them so they could plunder them for the goods on board. This film is set in a time before British Coast Guards existed.
Mary (O?Hara) turns up at the home and inn of her aunt Patience (Ney), JamaicaInn as she has been orphaned. Patience is married to the brutish Joss (Banks) who is not happy to see ...
Advantages: Experience it in half a day, interesting Disadvantages: Can be costly
of local places to visit. PLEASE NOTE: my rating of average for the quality of rooms was the most neutral of ratings. Having never used the actual accommodation I could not judge the quality, but neither could I place a review without it. My 'average' is not a reflection upon JamaicaInn.
Even so, we did enter the pub for refreshments. In our case, it was cream teas. I found the food delicious and the surroundings lovely and comfortable (the Inn has kept much of its character in the dark wood, beamed ceilings and, outside, the cobbled courtyards).
Prices in the pub vary, and I personally feel items are slightly on the expensive side. Our cream teas cost £3.95, which included two scones, jam, clotted cream, and a cup of tea. This wasn't too bad, but a penguin biscuit bar cost 85p!
The Museum
The museum is worth a visit ...
Advantages: The book is hard to put down and full of twists and turns - a must read Disadvantages: You won't get the dishes done!!
JAMAICAINN
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Those of you who read my review on 'Rebecca' will know that I am a big fan of Daphne Du Maurier's work.
JamaicaInn is another of Ms Du Maurier's books that has paticular meaning to me as I have visited the actual 'JamaicaInn' on Bodmin Moor.
"History"
It was in 1930 that Ms Du Maurier spent a night on the cold, dark and eerie Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. She had been out riding across the Moors with her friend,Foy Quiller-Couch, when a sudden dark fog came down and the couple found themselves lost on the bleak, foreboding moor. We can just imagine how they felt as she tells us that there were Bogs, quarries, brooks, boulders, hell on every side, we led the horses from the slippery track, and then got up on our saddles again; after several worrying hours lost on the moorland ...
