Jamaica Inn
A young Irish girl is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, only to discover that her uncle heads a gang of pirates who plunder innocent ships against the rocky coastline.
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A well done three star film - Moir
Scenes and acting fit together skillfully. Charles Laughton projects great vitality into his part. It is obvious that Hitchcock is a talented director ... yet it seems to me that something interesting is missing.
There are wines that are ok and others that are exciting to taste. One, a home made wine shared with me had this quality of freshness to it that gave joy and yet in many respects it was not a 'great'wine. Yet there were wines I have had that were perhaps technically more finished but they lacked that joy and excitement. [Of course a really good wine has that joy as well as what enables one to recognise the wine maker's skill and control]. So far for me Hitchcock films while skillfully done and organised feel to me to lack the joy.
Lang at his best, Ozo, Kurosawa, Dreyer, Renoir to name some of the film makers I have seen so far have done films that were like great wines - everything and the exuberant joy to the heart as well of something one cannot put exactly into words. (Actually A Bout de Souffle/ Breathless by Godard also had this). However, not for me this film.
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A well done three star film - Moir
Scenes and acting fit together skillfully. Charles Laughton projects great vitality into his part. It is obvious that Hitchcock is a talented director ... yet it seems to me that something interesting is missing.
There are wines that are ok and others ...