Paramount Pictures
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Kino)
Young orphan Maureen O'Hara, in her first major role, travels to a remote inn to live with a cousin. The locals avoid it and so she turns to wealthy neighbor Charles Laughton for the last part of the journey. The crude inhabitants of the inn are thieves and murderers who prey on shipwrecked survivors and loot their cargo. Laughton turns out to be the mastermind, and when an undercover law officer is exposed he uses O'Hara to escape detection. She soon finds herself kidnapped and on the way to France, until Laughton himself is exposed to the gang. Overplotted Hitchcock is also somewhat underrated, with a vivid atmosphere and a couple of violent, bloodthirsty scenes. Laughton threatens to overwhelm everything, but O'Hara's manages to keep him somewhat in check.
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