a dreadful alfred hitchcock film and perhaps one of his very weak . just before leave england for hollywood to shoot rebecca and hitchcock squeeze into his schedule this windswept adventure for charles laughton mayflower film . base on a novel set on the cornish coast by daphne du maurier and the same author and setting a rebecca and laughton play a decadent and deceitful nobleman who shelter a young orphan woman from a band of cutthroat live down the road while seem these land pirate be in league with a not so mysterious benefactor to sabotage the ship attempt to port and ransack their vessel and kill everyone on board . laughton and make up and dress to resemble a baroque clown and seem to be have a good time and but all his leering and over affectation be use for little purpose here his character simply doesn not make any sense . laughton real life discovery maureen ohara have her first major movie role here and and she pose prettily and be amusingly irate throughout . the climax be elaborately stag and excite and with hitchcock finally shake off the cobweb and give u some of his trademark shock effect and and harry stradling cinematography be first rate . otherwise this busy and boring drama never find an appropriate tone or style . half from .