10 Times Directors Hated The Films They Made

Sometimes, actors can get a little too big for their boots. All that fame and acclaim can go to their heads, inflating their egos to ludicrous levels and making them believe they're more important than anyone else. That's pretty much what happened on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 thriller, Jamaica Inn.

Based on a novel by Daphe du Maurier, the rights to Jamaica Inn were purchased by English actor Charles Laughton. Laughton was one of the biggest stars around at the time and clearly had a very high opinion of himself, seemingly having no qualms about wrestling control of production away from Hitchcock and basically rewriting du Maurier's original story to give himself way more screen time.

Laughton even insisted that the film have a different ending just so he could have a more prominent role. The film was a commercial success but critics at the time and today consider it to be one of Hitchcock's worst productions, with the famous director calling the whole project "completely absurd".