*** (Worth seeing)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison
With Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges and Maureen O’Hara
Perhaps not one of the more famous works by Hitchcock, this period piece, set in Cornwall in the early eighteen hundreds, is well on par with such films. The by far most memorable performance is achieved by Charles Laughton, who plays a corrupt official engineering shipwrecks and making it rich on the goods from the ships.
All pretty conventionally told but well shot, this is well worth seeing, but not essential viewing in any way.
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