A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 British adventure movie directed by Alexander Mackendrick and was based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes. It stars Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Deborah Baxter, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Trader Faulkner, Gert Fröbe and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.