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The Australian critics thought plenty of complimentary thoughts about Charles Laughton’s latest film, • Jamaica Inn ; ’ now screening at the Regent, if their printed reviews meant anything. The ‘ Sydney Morning Herald’ commented: “The story of ‘ Jamaica Inn ’ has been composed for the screen by a number of well-accre-dited writers, including Daphne du Maurier and J. B. Priestley. Not their work, however, hut two other things give the film its great dramatic impact. One is the direction of Alfred Hitchcock, who sends Cornish tempests surging through the • narrative with bleak and imaginative splendour. _ The other is Charles Laughton’s brilliant character study of a rapscallion of the time of King George IV.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 13
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