i just saw jamaica inn ( 1939 ) and be shock to find it right at home at any exploitation film fest . while it be direct by hitchcock and it doesn not feel like a hitchcock movie at all and and the true auteur of the film be the dialogue writer ( separate from screenplay writer in the credit ) and sidney gilliat and and the star and who be also the villain and charles laughton . the dialogue seem straight out of a clockwork orange and a if both film take place in the same alternate universe . one character in particular sound like one of alex droogs . couple with this fantastic dialogue be one of my top ten favorite villain in movie history . charles laughton chew the # $ . out of the scenery in this role and with good than perfect comic timing and a villainous role straight out of an exploitation film . while not technically an exploitation film and i think you could only get into it by watch it in the same way you would watch an exploitation film and otherwise you probably wouldn not get it and think it be just some early undeveloped hitch film . for example and i think the last 10 minute or so of laughton kidnap maureen ohara character be just a 1930 metaphorical way of film an exploitation rape scene . just watch the way laughton do the most insanely despicable thing and seem to have the most blasé and yet innocently boyish fun do it . play this in the middle of a triple bill of 1970 exploitation film and it would feel right at home . probably the only way to watch it . view this instead a most people do and a hitchcock in development and will probably only lead to disappointment and a can be see from other user comment .