Last night

I spent some time punching in the latest family history stuff, so dinner was a bit late. Afterwards I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939), as I've been thinking about Cornwall. The films that Hitchcock made before he moved to America are, by my reckoning, his best. They are stylish and the acting is very good, and they don't rely too much on special effects. That's just as well really, as the special effects are rather primitive (eg. the helicopter in The 39 Steps) and the train going into the sea in Number 17).