In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an innkeeper who’s a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

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Film Cast:

• Sir Humphrey Pengallan: Charles Laughton
• Mary Yellan: Maureen O’Hara
• James “Jem” Trehearne: Robert Newton
• Joss Merlyn: Leslie Banks
• Patience Merlyn: Marie Ney
• Chadwick: Horace Hodges
• Harry: Emlyn Williams
• Salvation: Wylie Watson
• Thomas: Mervyn Johns
• Dandy: Edwin Greenwood
• Willie: Stephen Haggard
• Sydney: Morland Graham
• Lord George: Basil Radford
• Captain Murray: George Curzon
• Coachman (uncredited): Aubrey Mather
• Sir Humphrey’s Dinner Guest: Jeanne De Casalis
• Lord Ringwood: A. Bromley Davenport
• Lady Beston: Mabel Terry-Lewis
• Davis: Frederick Piper
• Dowland: Herbert Lomas
• Granny Tremarney: Clare Greet
• Burdkin: William Devlin
• Coach Passenger (uncredited): Marie Ault
• Coach Passenger (uncredited): O.B. Clarence
• Sir Humphrey’s Groom Sam: Hay Petrie
• Miss Black (uncredited): Mary Jerrold
• Captain Johnson (uncredited): John Longden
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): Robert Adair
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): William Fazan
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): Archie Harradine
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): Harry Lane
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): Sam Lee
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): Alan Lewis
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): Philip Ray
• Undetermined Role (uncredited): A. George Smith

Film Crew:

• Producer: Charles Laughton
• Editor: Robert Hamer
• Set Decoration: Thomas N. Morahan
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Original Music Composer: Eric Fenby
• Costume Design: Molly McArthur
• Producer: Erich Pommer
• Director of Photography: Harry Stradling Sr.
• Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles
• Novel: Daphne du Maurier
• Dialogue: Sidney Gilliat
• Additional Dialogue: J. B. Priestley
• Production Manager: Hugh Perceval
• Screenplay: Joan Harrison
• Assistant Director: Roy Goddard
• Camera Operator: Gus Drisse
• Sound Recordist: Jack Rogerson
• Dialogue Coach: J. Lee Thompson
• Makeup Artist: Ern Westmore
• Special Effects: Harry Watt
• Assistant Director: Edward Joseph
• Matte Painter: W. Percy Day
• Stunts: Bob Simmons

Movie Reviews:

• CinemaSerf: Charles Laughton excels as “Sir Humphrey” in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier’s book. The bleak photography helps generate a sense of the menace of the wreckers as they – led by Leslie Banks – seek to drive ships onto the rocks and make off with the contraband – murdering as they go. Maureen O’Hara and Robert Newton discover the evil antics of the squire and his accomplices and the film tells the tale of their death defying antics to bring all to justice. Alfred Hitchcock has much to work with here, and he makes the most of it.