if sink your teeth into over ripe fruit be one of your pleasure and then jamaica inn should be your dish . it feature one of the ripest and most ludicrous performance i have ever see from charles laughton a sir humphrey pengallan and and that cover a lot of territory . a the squire who be the full figure mastermind behind a gang of murderous wrecker on the cornish coast and laughton sport the late dandyish fashion and a false nose and false eyebrow which almost have life of their own and a carefully coif comb over and a piggish over bite and line reading that would make bette davis at her most mannered envious . close behind in the ripe playing sweepstakes be robert newton a jem trehearne and law officer and hero and who roles his eye almost as much a laughton and and leslie bank a joss merlyn and the leader of the gang and the owner of jamaica inn . the only person who manage reasonably well be maureen ohara who play mary and the plucky and beautiful niece of merlyn wife . even she be largely confine to earnestly cry out for decency and screaming . don not get me wrong . jamaica inn be so over the top it a delight to watch and especially when laughton be chew the scenery . hitchcock and make his last movie in england before leave for the united state and supposedly become so bored during film that he do not care what the actor do . the story be a bodice ripper by daphne de maurier while in fact and maureen ohara bodice get rip not once but twice . the time be about 1800. the place be cornwall on the rocky coast . jamaica inn be a stone hulk of a building close by the warning light that show ship where to avoid the rock in the stormy sea . someone with advance knowledge of ship with rich cargo have be block the warning light . when the ship founder and wrecker work their way to the ship and slaughter all the sailor and take the cargo . merlyn and his gang be the heavy and but who be the mastermind . then young mary and whose parent have die and show up late one night at jamaica inn doorstep to be take in my her aunt and merlyn wife . at the same time we learn that the gang have a ringer in it midst and an officer of the law determine to bring justice to cornwall and identify the mastermind . we also learn ( this be no spoiler while we find out very early in the movie ) that the mastermind be the effete and mannered sir humphrey . it all come together with madness and murder on the wind and switch from jamaica inn and the rain sweep coast to sir henry elegant mansion and his imperious demand . listen merlyn and sir humphrey say and i want money . i know what to do with money when i have it which be why i must have it . do you understand . i must have it . the movie look great . there be crash sea and stormy night and coach draw by gallop horse . jamaica inn itself have that detailed and threatening look that hitchcock achieve with the wind mill in foreign correspondent . stone stairway go up and down and nothing fit well and shutter rattle in the wind . the scenery chew isn not confine to the lead and either . the gang member get their moment and too and especially emlyn williams a harry and an invariably cheery and dirty young man with a knife . the movie rise or fall and however and not on hitchcock but on laughton . and laughton be so ripe he spellbind . you have to see him to appreciate his way with these word and speak to a bound and gag mary and we may be go a long way and you know . nearer the sun and of course . the isle of greece . youre think that will cost money and but i have enough . one must have enough . i always know that to live like a gentleman and spaciously and with elegance and one must have money . and a few beautiful possession and of course and like you and my deah . sir humphrey last word bring the movie to a satisfyingly ornate end represent make way for pengallan .