Riff-Piraten

Originaltitel: Jamaica Inn

1939
12
1 Std. 48 Min.

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6,3/10

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Charles Laughton and Marie Ney in Riff-Piraten (1939)

trailer wiedergeben1:28

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Adventure Crime Drama

In Cornwall, 1819, entdeckt eine junge Frau, dass sie in der Nähe einer Bande von Kriminellen lebt, die Schiffswracks aus Profitgründen arrangieren.In Cornwall, 1819, entdeckt eine junge Frau, dass sie in der Nähe einer Bande von Kriminellen lebt, die Schiffswracks aus Profitgründen arrangieren.In Cornwall, 1819, entdeckt eine junge Frau, dass sie in der Nähe einer Bande von Kriminellen lebt, die Schiffswracks aus Profitgründen arrangieren.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

11.716

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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...OK until you read the book

I was pleasantly surprised when I first saw Hitchcock's 'Jamaica Inn'. I had heard so many bad things about the movie and the fact that it seemed to have been made on the cheap and in a hurry so Hitch could do a runner to Hollywood. I really liked this movie - I thought the lovely Maureen O'Hara made a very spirited Mary Yellan and Leslie Banks was great as her hulking bully of an Uncle, Joss. While not as technically inventive as some of Hitchcock's other work before or since, I felt it was made with care and presented a realistic, gloomy atmosphere of doom with its endless night time scenes and constant soundtrack of howling winds and crashing waves.

And then I read the book...

Du Maurier's novel was so different as to bear no relation whatever to Hitchcock's film. The book was intense, gritty, dark and very moody. Mary Yellan was written almost as she is presented on screen with her sharp, Irish wits but Joss is a much more tortured, boorish animal than he is in the film. Also, the character played by Charles Laughton is absent in the book - or at least Laughton's incarnation is. The squire in the book is one of the good guys and features very little. The film of 'Jamaica Inn' may as well be called the Charles Laughton Show so as to give the actor every chance to overact.

See the film if you are a Hitchcock fan and enjoy it for what it is but if you've read and enjoyed the book, my advice would be to steer clear!

gnb
27. Sept. 2004
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This was reportedly one of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's unhappiest directing jobs. He felt caught between Charles Laughton and Laughton's business partners. Later, he said that he did not so much direct this movie as referee it.

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Toward the end of the film as the ship is heading for the rocks, someone yells "Hard a port!" The helmsman then turns the wheel to starboard and then the ship is seen moving to starboard.

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[first title card]
Title Card: "Oh Lord, we pray thee ~~ not that wrecks should happen ~~ but that if they do happen / Thou wilt guide them ~~ to the coast of Cornwall ~~ for the benefit of the poor inhabitants."
Title Card: So ran an old Cornish prayer of the early nineteenth century, but in that lawless corner of England, before the British Coastguard Service came into being...
Title Card: ...there existed gangs who, for the sake of plunder deliberately planned the wrecks, luring ships to their doom on the cruel rocks of the wild Cornish coast.

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[Prologue] "Oh Lord, we pray thee -- not that wrecks should happen -- but that if they do happen Thou wilt guide them -- to the coast of Cornwall -- for the benefit of the poor inhabitants." So ran an old Cornish prayer of the early nineteenth century, but in that lawless corner of England, before the British Coastguard Service came into being . . . . . . . . . . there exited gangs who, for the sake of plunder deliberately planned the wrecks, luring ships to their doom on the cruel rocks of the wild Cornish coast.

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There are about eight minutes of footage missing from various unauthorized US DVDs of Jamaica Inn. This is due to them being bootlegged from old, worn copies of edited US theatrical release prints. The missing footage should appear at the end of chapter 14 (approx 00:51:55). As Jem and Sir H leave the room, the DVD cuts to Mary, Patience and Joss at Jamaica Inn. There's now no explanation as to how Mary returned there, or why Sir H and Jem (now dressed in a military uniform) are banging on the door outside. These bootleg DVDs are known to have footage missing:
R0 Laserlight Video/Delta Entertainment (USA, 2000)
R0 Westlake Entertainment Group (USA, 2004)
R0 Diamond Entertainment (Alfred Hitchcock: Collector's Edition Volume 1, USA, 2003) These authorized DVDs are known to have the footage intact:
R0 Kino Video/Image Entertainment (USA, 1999)
R2 Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd (UK, 2003) All other authorized releases also have the complete UK version, as per the Alfred Hitchcock Collectors' Guide.