Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall, England in the early 19th century and stars Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan and Trevor Eve. It was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The production is set in Cornwall, England in the early 19th century, centered on a free house, 'Jamaica Inn' in Bodmin Moor near modern Bolventor. When her seafaring husband dies in the destruction of his sailing ship by wreckers on
Jamaica Inn (film) Joss and the gang. In another part of the inn, the gang convenes to discuss why they get so little money for their efforts. They suspect Jem Trehearne (Robert Newton), a gang member who has been with them for only two months, of embezzling goods. They hang him from one of the rafters of the inn, but when they leave, Mary cuts the rope and saves his life. Trehearne and Mary flee the gang, narrowly avoiding recapture by swimming for their lives. The next morning, they seek the protection of Pengallan, unaware that he is the secret leader of Joss's