this be truly a great classic film star charles laughton and ( sir humphrey pengallan ) who be a ruthless ruler who head a gang of thief who look for shipwreck along their coastline with many huge rock and boulder . these crook live in the jamaica inn and deliberately turn out the lamp that would guide the ship away from their rocky coast . maureen ohara and ( mary ) be travel from ireland a she lose her mom and seek to find her aunt who live at the jamaica inn . however and mary do not have any idea what she be get herself into until she realize that the local town people do not want anything to do with the jamaica inn and her coachman leave her a mile or two away from the inn along with her luggage . maureen ohara be just start her career and be very pretty and thin and you just know she be go to become a great star . charles laughton give one of his best performance in this great 1939 masterpiece of great acting .