Colorized Version | Jamaica Inn (1939) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock – A British crime drama & adventure thriller film – Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara in her first significant film appearance

Google Overview: After the death of her mother, young Mary (Maureen O’Hara) travels to the Cornish coast seeking her Aunt Patience (Marie Ney). Stranded on a windswept, isolated road, Mary meets Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton), who kindly escorts her to the Jamaica Inn. There, Mary meets her aunt and bullying uncle, Merlyn Joss (Leslie Banks) — who secretly leads a band of pirates that pilfers the goods from wrecked ships. Suspicious, Mary turns to Pengallan for help, only to discover another dark secret.

Note: The film is about control, deception, and crime. It is a one’s LOSS is another’s GAIN scenario in the film as bandits deceitfully use shore lighting to indicate safe passage yet wrecking the unsuspecting ship on rocks where the bandits can pillage the helpless ship.

The Charles Laughton character Humphrey Pengallan is the secret leader of the crime syndicate. Pengallan reveals that Crime is a Top-down enterprise and that the Top “brains” of the criminal activity facilitate the Thugs “corpses” and that without the Brains the Thugs would just be so many dead corpses. Much like today in Gaza where Hamas is a Top-down criminal enterprise with the UN facilitating the dangerous Hamas Terrorist group.

The Pleasure Garden (1925) British–German silent drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his feature film directorial debut. The first complete Alfred Hitchcock film. The Jamaica Inn (1939) film is essentially a remake of the The Pleasure Garden (1925) film with the location changed but much of the plot is similar.

The White Shadow (1923) is a British silent drama film – considered to be the actual first film of Alfred Hitchcock – Hitchcock was an uncredited Writer on the film and also did some of the Directing for the film and by some accounts Hitchcock did most of the Directing.

The White Shadow (1923) has historically had the dubious reputation as being the most hated film ever released.

Audiences hated the film and the theater employees, especially the projectionists, famously hated the film so much that the employees would throw the film into the trash rather than show the film on the screen to an audience.

The film was so consistently discarded into a rubbish bin that it actually became a “Lost Film” much of the film was rediscovered in 2011 however the ending on film does not exist – the ending is missing because a projector operator threw the final reel of film into the trash.

The White Shadow (1923) film is about two sisters (white shadow, dark shadow) who are in a feud over everything including family matters involving their father and one sister dating a man the other sister loves. Apparently the plot escalates to the point where one sister determins that her sins can only be cleared by the death of her sinless good sister (white shadow) and takes matters into her own hands. The actual film ending is unknown but the film is both hated and the ending is missing leading to speculation that the sisters didn’t reconcile and in fact it went bad for them both.

A terrible film written and almost certainly directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

AI Overview – Postscript:
The White Shadow (1923) was a British silent film released in the U.S. by Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises.

The White Shadow (1923) film imported from Britain to the USA by Lewis J. Selznick proved to be so hated and such a disastrous film that Lewis J. Selznick was blacklisted by Hollywood resulting in the bankruptcy of Selznick Enterprises and placing the Selznick family into poverty.

Lewis J. Selznick’s son David O. Selznick vowed revenge against Hollywood. Marrying the daughter of Louis B. Mayer (co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios) and becoming the Producer of several successful movies including “Gone With The Wind” (1939).

In 1940 David O. Selznick personally hired Alfred Hitchcock and brought him to America from Britain to Direct the successful film Rebecca (1940). A move David O. Selznick felt nessicary to vindicate both his father Lewis and Alfred Hitchcock after the disastrous White Shadow (1923) film release.

By David Anson Brown

The Great Currency Debate: British Pound £ vs Euro € 🇬🇧💷

Did you know that Britain almost swapped the pound sterling for the European euro?

Prior to leaving the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) held four major opt-outs from EU legislation and treaties, which was more than any other member state:

• Economic and Monetary Union (Eurozone): The UK was not part of the single European currency the euro € and kept the British pound sterling £ as its national currency.

Note: Previously due to the opt-out clauses the British government was able to keep their national monetary system the British pound sterling £ – The German, France, Spain, Italy, etc. governments were all required to switch to the single Euro € currency.

☆ If the British UK government seeks to rejoin the EU the previous opt-out clauses, including the approximately $30 Billion annual tax discount for Britain are expected to be removed. The British Government could be required to switch from the Pound Sterling to the European Euro currency – and pay by some estimates (Times Radio) a $30 Billion annual Tax fee to the EU.

The Euro (€) is the official currency of 21 European Union member states (forming the Eurozone), as well as several microstates and territories. – Google AI Gemini

Europe is changing (crisis and collapse) in ways most people don’t fully see yet.

Growth has stalled, living costs are climbing, and the gap between Europe and the rest of the world is widening.

From housing pressures to shrinking industries and rising public debt, the signs are appearing across the continent.

Many Europeans now feel that life is getting harder, not easier, even as the EU remains one of the richest regions on Earth.

EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg on October 12, 2026, for a high-stakes Foreign Affairs Council meeting focused on Ukraine, the Middle East, and the future of European security.

The discussions are expected to cover Russia’s war against Ukraine, escalating hybrid threats targeting the EU, the situation in Iran and freedom of navigation, developments in Gaza and the West Bank, and the security implications of EU enlargement.

Note: The British UK and the European EU are more interested in Ukraine and Gaza (while playing a constant ‘blame game’) than in implimenting solutions to their own very real domestic issues and problems.

☆ It’s possible Europe is going to pivot and go all in financially and politically on a foreign policy cause i.e. Gaza while their own nations including France and Belgium riot and burn.

The ‘blame game’ is an informal idiom for a situation where people, groups, or organizations try to shift responsibility (i.e. to Russia) and accuse each other for a mistake, failure, or bad event instead of fixing the problem.

Key Characteristics

• Mutual Accusation: Parties trade criticism rather than taking ownership of their roles in the error. – Google AI Gemini

France was in flames – now Brussels is burning…

Large-scale immigration without a plan for integration amounts to an experiment whose consequences everybody has to live with.’

Ben Leo argues poorly managed integration risks adding tension to societies already under pressure.

☆ Brussels serves as the de facto capital of the European Union (EU), hosting the primary administrative and legislative headquarters for the bloc. – Google AI Gemini