Jamaica Inn (1939)

After the deaths of her parents, Maureen O’Hara travels to the titular locale to join her aunt Marie Ney whose husband runs the inn. Unbeknownst to O’Hara, her uncle uses the inn as the headquarters for a gang of wreckers who engineer shipwrecks which they then plunder. While it doesn’t share most of the hallmarks of director Hitchcock’s well-known films, it’s relatively entertaining in its own right. It has a few captivating scenes, such as the initial shipwrecking, and a charmingly over the top performance from Charles Laughton as the pompous local justice of the peace.