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Jamaica Inn
1939 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
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Shipbreaking, not to be confused with Shipwrecking which was the legendary practice of costal piracy where ships were lured to the rocks by fake lighthouses as depicted by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1939 classic Jamaica Inn.
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