Jamaica Run

Jamaica Run (1953)

This girl was worth fighting for ... battling a killer under the tropic sea ... or in the heart of the voodoo jungle !

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.

Date of release
1953-04-21
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Director
Lewis R. Foster

Casting

Interesting facts

Jamaica Run is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure drama film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starred Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl and Wendell Corey. Much of the personnel in this movie worked on the previous year's Caribbean Gold. The plot concerns ownership of an old estate set on the island in the Caribbean.

Production

The film was based on a 1950 novel, The Neat Little Corpse by Max Murray, which was originally published as a magazine serial. The New York Times called it "highly agreeable".

Film rights were bought by Pine-Thomas Productions who announced it as a vehicle for Arlene Dahl in January 1952. Lewis Foster was given the job of directing and writing the script. In March Ray Milland signed to co star. The following month Wendell Corey agreed to do the film.

Ray Milland had a contract to make one film a year with Paramount (who released Pine-Thomas films). He was wanted by producer Harold Popkin to make The Thief but Paramount insisted he make Jamaica Run under their contract instead. The impasse was resolved by the intervention of Milland's agents at MCA and filming for Jamaica Run was pushed back. Filming started 1 May 1953.

Pine-Thomas made the film as a "Clarion" Production, a company they sometimes used for their more expensive films.

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