jamaica inn be the last film alfred hitchcock make in england before go to hollywood before the war and from the sloppy look of it he must have be in an awful hurry . a more dreadful hitch sound film i have yet to see . the cinematography be murky beyond necessity and the editing choppy and telegraph a the suspense be relegate for the most part to goofy land pirate run amok snarling and terrify a youthful maureen ohara . a rather odd time and plot ( and it show ) for the usually contemporary set hitchcock it deal with 18th century pirate that manufacture ship wreck along the coast of cornwall . the brain behind the cutthroat who be more caricature than menace be a highly respected landowner and imbalanced perhaps by the ravage of tertiary syphilis ( tabes dorsalis . then again i be no doctor ) . charles laughton play sir humphrey pengallen with a recklessly overreach almost unintelligible ( to fellow actor as well a the audience ) disdain for everything a he jabber incomprehensibly throughout . laughton seem to act oblivious to all around him and some scene look more like a rehearsal a he adopt different nuance and utters non sequiturs a if search for the right fit . hitchcock who once refer to actor a cattle clearly have a case of mad cow disease with laughton . in addition to hitch poor handling of the cast ( the pirate gang be pure keystone cop dress in buccaneer ) his pacing be off as well with action and suspense scene lag and have the imagination of saturday matinée serial . an incoherent muddle of a film from start to finish feature two cinema giant at their bad one would be wise to avoid checking in at jamaica inn .