Plot
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Cast
as Sir Humphrey Pengallan
as Mary Yellan
as James "Jem" Trehearne
as Joss Merlyn
as Patience Merlyn
as Chadwick
as Harry
as Salvation
as Thomas
as Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
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Reviews
Charles Laughton excels as local grandee "Sir Humphrey" in this super adaptation of Daphné du Maurier's book. The bleak photography and huge great waves help generate a sense of the menace of the evil Cornish wreckers. They are led by Leslie Banks's malevolent "Joss" who is just as cruel to his wife "Patience" (Marie Ney) as he is to any survivors after his men seek to drive ships onto the rocks …