Talk:Jamaica Inn (film)

A note
"Jem Trahearne, a suave young secret-police agent with no trace of Irish accent." Why should he have an Irish accent? And is it Traherne or Trahearne? 74.65.209.146 (talk) 04:40, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Because most of Robert Newton's characters have Irish accents. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.243.185 (talk) 19:49, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

The cameo
Where does Hitchcock appear? Do you know?

By the way, I like the film. I just wanted you to know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.98.234.226 (talk) 20:01, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Accent
Most of Robert Newton's characters had Cornish or Dorset accents, although he doesn't have one in Jamaica Inn.None of the actors in the film plays in anything like a Cornish accent, since none of them (if not for Newton, who however couldn't display one because he portrays a member of the Upper Class) had ever heard one and finally came to sound like Americans badly doing the accent of an East Londoner trying to badly do what they believed a Cornish accent sounded like.Really a pity, although later on in his life Newton made up for this very embarassing situation by portraying Long John Silver with the very accent all the other actors should have used, but failed to do so since nobody taught them one. Now,thanks to Newton, most cinema and television pirates (although Peter Ustinov and Brad Pitt display again a London accent) have a Cornish or at least West Country like accent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:B07:6463:99D:4C6F:508F:B39C:2EB9 (talk) 23:53, 17 December 2019 (UTC)