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Another atypical Hitchcock, and one with some atypical issues behind the scenes.

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52 Weeks of Hitchcock: 24. Jamaica Inn

This one is very much the story of two men.

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Anonymous

From the Motion Picture Production Code, section 8 on religion: "Ministers of religion, or persons posing as such, shall not be portrayed as comic characters or as villains as to cast disrespect on religion." So Laughton's character couldn't be a clergyman, real or phony, without violating the Code.

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Anonymous

Great video, really interesting. One thing that sort of gets overlooked, although there was always talk and legends there is actually no evidence that people ever used false lights. One man was hung for stealing from a ship and not assisting a sailor, who survived, and from 1870 rewards for rescuing sailors from wrecks basically became more lucrative than pillaging.

Anonymous

Laughton really brought the uncomfortable to many of his roles: most overtly in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, but films like Island of Lost Souls and his directorial effort, Night of the Hunter, also are shot through with this weird, almost clinical yet throbbing obsession with the sexuality of other people, especially women and girls.

Anonymous

The history of wrecking in Cornwall seems murky. The one thing I am certain of is that there was a turn-of-the-century British opera called The Wreckers, which has occasionally been revived.

Anonymous

But I'm sure you could have a character pose as a clergyman without casting disrespect on religion.