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The Adventures of Jane

  • 1949
  • Not Rated
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
132
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Christabel Leighton-Porter in The Adventures of Jane (1949)
Comedy

Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.

  • Directors
    • Edward G. Whiting
    • Alfred J. Goulding
  • Writers
    • Alfred J. Goulding
    • Con West
    • Edward G. Whiting
  • Stars
    • Christabel Leighton-Porter
    • Stanelli
    • Michael Hogarth
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.7/10
    132
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    • Directors
      • Edward G. Whiting
      • Alfred J. Goulding
    • Writers
      • Alfred J. Goulding
      • Con West
      • Edward G. Whiting
    • Stars
      • Christabel Leighton-Porter
      • Stanelli
      • Michael Hogarth
    • 10User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Christabel Leighton-Porter
    • Jane
    • (as Jane)
    Stanelli
    • Hotel Manager
    Michael Hogarth
    • Tom Hawke
    Ian Colin
    • Capt. Cleaver
    Sonya O'Shea
    • Ruby
    Peter Butterworth
    Peter Butterworth
    • Drunken Man
    Wally Patch
    • Customs Official
    Sebastian Cabot
    Sebastian Cabot
    • Traveling Man
    Sidney Benson
    • Mr. Sneyed
    Charles Irwin
    • Lew
    George Crawford
    • Freddie
    Joan Grindley
    • Maid
    Norman Pett
    • Self
    • (uncredited)
    • Directors
      • Edward G. Whiting
      • Alfred J. Goulding
    • Writers
      • Alfred J. Goulding
      • Con West
      • Edward G. Whiting
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    2malcolmgsw

    Pretty Dire

    I see the leading lady nearly every day.She was the model for "The Naked Lady" statue which stands near the junction of the A406 and A1 in Henleys Corner North London.I would say that she is a lot more mobile as the statue than she was as the leading lady of this almighty load of rubbish made at Brighton Studios.She simply cant act and so the film is simply amateur theatricals.the story,when it actually gets going is strictly second rate.However we do get to see a young petter Butterworth drunkly get into bed with Fritz the dog,being kissed and thinking he is with Jane.That is probably about the only memorable moment in this truly awful film.
    6elo-equipamentos

    Jane the British Pin up on sexy-comic oriented picture, criminally underrated!!

    Jane a British comic strip from wartime era, gained a flesh and blood version on theatre on late forties, initially it was planed as series, however it didn't get impact in box-office due it was harden beaten up by the puritan critics, thus stop a first episode, likewise the American Bette Page, somehow this genre didn't get too long quite sure due its period of time of release, on that time the costumers were interested in something spicy, although a massive common decency campaign attached a poorest financial results dropped it for good for our sorrow.

    Jane is extremely sexy blonde bombshell, several men fought over its attention, as theatre entertainment, surround by many applicants she is involved in a smuggling diamonds to outside of England, many comic characters came along on the plot, also a beauty contest as well to gets fire the sexy proposition of movie, which has a dog neither to fill out the casting, the actress Christabel Leighton-Porter fill in perfectly the character in plenty physical attributes really bountiful, beauty legs, two front airbags and we must acknowledge, is very bounteous in those sexy sequences when its clothing is ripped off, just accidently of course.

    I'm wondering about the lowest rates given by IMDB's members, surely gave by bitters users or something alike, whatever it's plenty fun if we forgot the mismatches, this movie got a color nowadays, which a saw on Youtube, gorgeous print, sadly underrated!!

    Thanks for reading

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    First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.
    4CinemaSerf

    The Adventures of Jane

    This is little better or more than an extension of the 1930's "Daily Mirror" comic strip about a rather hapless heroine "Jane" who frequently gets herself into scrapes that usually end up with her scantily clad (by the standards of the day) and in need of some sort of gallant rescue. In this film, she is given a bracelet without knowing that it contains an expensive diamond and her admirer and his slimy associate try to use her to smuggle the jewel into the country then to abscond with it. If one was to be seriously critical at all of this farcical little yarn, then it would that Christabel Leighton-Porter was probably just too old to portray the rather empty-headed bimbo that she was meant to be. There's a fun little cameo from Peter Butterworth as the drunk; but otherwise this is just a rather politically incorrect, forgettable, Saturday morning feature.
    4boblipton

    Rather Dull

    Christabel Leighton-Porter is Jane Gay, a pretty girl in show business in some vague way that has her and her dachshund taking bows on stage in London and judging beauty contests elsewhere. Somehow, she gets involved in a diamond-smuggling operation that involves smuggling one diamond at a time.

    It's based on the comic strip created by Norman Pett, in which Jane was a competent young woman who was always having her outer garments accidentally torn away -- in one morale-boosting event during the Second World War, she lost all of her clothes amidst a bunch of soldiers. Originally Pett's wife was the model for Jane. After 1939, Miss Leighton-Porter became the model.

    This was Miss Leighton-Porter's only movie role, and the rather dull handling by directors Edward G. Whiting and Alf Goulding show why. Miss Leighton-Porter's skirt goes away only twice, although she does roll down a hill. Peter Butterworth plays a drunk who winds up in her bed by accident, and Sebastian Cabot can be spotted, although, as usual, I missed him.
    4bkoganbing

    The UK's idea of a dumb Dora

    The Adventures Of Jane is based on a popular comic strip in Great Britain that never traveled across the pond. Jane is a stripper either on the job or off it she always seems to be shedding herself of her clothing.

    I guess the closest thing to Jane over in America would have been Marie Wilson in her ingenuousness.

    In this film Christabel Leighton-Porter is wooed with a bracelet by an admirer who is trying to make her a recruit in a smuggling racket.

    In a role that called for a Marie Wilson, Ms. Leighton-Porter is not. A planned for series never materialized in fact her career never materialized.

    Still it's a curiousity.

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    • Trivia
      Norman Pett: Cartoonist sketching Jane.
    • Quotes

      Hotel Manager: Good evening, Sir. Now, is there anything you'd like?

      Tom Hawke: Yes, what do you recommend?

      Hotel Manager: Well now, let me see... How about some nice cutlets garnished with onions?

      Tom Hawke: Onions?

      Hotel Manager: Yes sir

      Tom Hawke: Do you realize I'm going to dance with this young lady?

      Hotel Manager: That's quite alright, sir. When you get the bill, it will take your breath away.

    • Connections
      Remade as Jane (1982)

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    • Release date
      • 1949 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Tudor Close Hotel, Dean Court Road, Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, UK(Jane arrives to judge a beauty contest.)
    • Production company
      • Keystone - New World Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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