by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Paramount's William Pine- William Thomas production unit came up with another moneyspinner in Jamaica Run. Ray Milland plays Patrick Fairlie, a schooner master who is inveigled into salvaging a wrecked ship. Somewhere in the wreckage is a century-old bill of sale, which will prove that a huge estate is indeed the property of landowner Ena Dacey (Arlene Dahl) and her tosspot mother (Carroll McComas) and brother (Wendell Corey). Certain parties want to get their meathooks into the property, thus Fairlie is in danger of losing his life should he begin exploring the scuttled ship. Filmed on location, Jamaica Run makes excellent use of the Technicolor process.
characteristics
- Risk
- Danger
- Jeopardy
- Rescue
- Alcoholic
- Rival
- Owner
- Murder
- Menace
- Mother
- Sailboat
- Sailing
- Wickedness
- Wreckage
- Sunken
