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This week the Brattle has lifted an old skeleton from the Hitchcock closet. Jamaica Inn, which bears little resemblance to the director's usual stock-in-trade, will be locked away by Saturday, however, and perhaps it is just as well. In the meantime, Charles Laughton's performance eases some of the strain created by two hours of frenzied melodrama...
Laughton, of course, has hacked a large hole for himself in the theatre world, and the Inn's Squire Pengallen is a character comfortably fitted within its boundaries. A bulbous villain with the dining habits of Henry VIII and the heart of Captain Bligh, the Squire lives in opulence while anonymously leading a gang of shipwreckers. Laughton makes him a polished old rogue, who cheerfully entertains his victims with superb and comically obvious hypocrisy...
Laughton's gusty humour has had an amazing durability. His co-star, Maureen O'Hara, might also boast of her consistency throughout the years. Jamaica Inn proves conclusively that she was just as inept in 1939 as she is today. In the role of an Irish lass whose innocence is only overshadowed by her muscle, Miss O'Hara's acting is a pantomime with words...
...Bavaria and western Austria, rain fell steadily for two weeks. The Inn, Traun, Enns and Ilz Rivers, swollen and heavy with flotsam, emptied into the surging Danube. At points of confluence, Passau and Linz, there was catastrophe. At Linz, in three days, the Danube doubled in width and tripled in depth, forcing 15,000 people to leave their homes. At Passau the river stage was 40 feet, 22 inches higher than the previous record...
...confession and is sure of a conviction. On their part defense counsel are just as eager to try their cases in the press. Do such shenanigans hinder justice? They certainly do, says the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Civil Rights. At Saranac Inn, N.Y. last week, the Bar Association was considering a committee proposal to stop lawyers from talking to the press. The proposal called for state legislation making it "unlawful" for either prosecutor or defense attorney to talk before trial about evidence in a criminal case...