Jamaica Inn (film) far-removed from the darker characters and sinister inn and coastline depicted in the book. Today it is considered one of Hitchcock's worst films. Hitchcock himself was disgusted with the film even before it was finished and stated that it was a "completely absurd" idea. However, the film still garnered a large profit (US$3.7 million, a huge success at the time) at the box office. Daphne du Maurier was also not pleased with the finished production and for a while she considered withholding the film rights to "Rebecca". In 1978, film critic Michael Medved gave "Jamaica Inn" a place in his
The Trout Inn The Trout Inn The Trout Inn (often simply referred to as The Trout) is a historic public house in Lower Wolvercote north of Oxford, close to Godstow Bridge, directly by the River Thames. The pub features in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited" and in Colin Dexter's "Inspector Morse" series, which was written and filmed in and around Oxford. For example, it appears in the TV episode "The Wolvercote Tongue". An alternative reality version also appears in Philip Pullman's "La Belle Sauvage". It also appears in the 1997 film version of "The Saint". In 2001 the Trout Inn was visited by