Jamaica Inn (film) book "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time". Jamaica Inn (film) Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel "Rebecca" and short story "The Birds"). It stars Charles Laughton and features Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. It is the last film Hitchcock made in the United Kingdom before he moved to the United States. The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1819; the
The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) Bond, but also by the police officer involved. Benson argues that this runs counter to another theme in the novel, which had also appeared in a number of other Bond books including "Goldfinger": the concept of Bond as Saint George against the dragon. In this Black agrees, who sees "The Spy Who Loved Me" as being "an account of the vulnerable under challenge, of the manipulative nature of individuals and of the possibility of being trapped by evil". "The Spy Who Loved Me" was written in Jamaica at Fleming's Goldeneye estate in January and February 1961, and was the shortest