The Cohen Media Group will release on Blu-ray Alfred Hitchcock's
Jamaica Inn (1939), starring Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, and Charles Laughton. Recently restored in 4K, the film will be available for purchase on May 12.
Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, a young woman discovers her uncle heads a gang of ship-wreckers and murderers under the secret patronage of the local squire. Her efforts to stop their wicked ways leads her down a path filled with murder and betrayal.
Jamaica Inn was the first of Hitchcock's adaptations of Daphne Du Maurier's novels including
Rebecca and
The Birds. It was also Hitchcock's last film made in the UK before coming to America.
2014 marked the 75th anniversary of the original theatrical release of
Jamaica Inn.