The film is set in 1820 (at the start of the reign of , King George 1V as mentioned by Pengallan in his first scene).Over and above its function as a hostelry, Jamaica Inn houses the clandestine rural headquarters of a gang of cut-throats and thieves, led by innkeeper Joss Merlyn. They have become wreckers They are responsible for a series of engineered shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning beacons, causing ships to run aground on the rocky Cornish Coast They then kill the sur...
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