Jamaica Inn (novel) - Jamaica Inn in Other Media

Jamaica Inn in Other Media

• A film adaptation of the novel was produced in 1939, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. The film differs from the book in some respects, with Francis Davey being replaced by a Squire Pengallon (Laughton). Du Maurier was not enamoured of the production.

• In 1983 there was a UK TV adaptation Jamaica Inn starring Jane Seymour, Trevor Eve, Billie Whitelaw and Patrick McGoohan. It was closer to the original story than the Hitchcock film.

• First known stage adaption of Jamaica Inn was by John King performed at the Regent Centre in 1993 and is due to be performed again in February 2009.

• There is a 2004 stage adaptation of Jamaica Inn by Lisa Evans, which has been performed as recently as 26 May 2007, at Newcastle-Under-Lyme's New Vic theatre, with the critically acclaimed Juliette Goodman starring in the lead role of Mary Yellan.

• The track "Jamaica Inn" on singer Tori Amos's 2005 album The Beekeeper, a song about "a man and a woman falling out", references the du Maurier novel and the wreckers of north Cornwall.
• In a June 12, 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Neal Peart of the rock band Rush, describes how the theme of the wreckers plays throughout the band's 2012 studio release, Clockwork_Angels.