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The Adventures of Jane

  • 1949
  • Not Rated
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
133
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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
    133
    YOUR RATING
    • 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
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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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.
    3JoeytheBrit

    The Adventures of Jane review

    Low-budget attempt to cash in on the (waning) popularity of the saucy British comic strip is very thin soup indeed. The innocent Jane would repeatedly lose her clothing in the course of her adventures in print but only has her skirt ripped off a couple of times on celluloid due to the censorship rules of the time. The plot, involving diamond smugglers who use Jane as an unsuspecting mule, feels like an afterthought. Carry On regular Peter Butterworth makes an early appearance as an unfunny drunk who mistakenly sleeps with Jane's dachshund, Fritz.
    4crossbow0106

    Doesn't Hold Up

    This film is based on the comic strip in England, which ran for many years, chronicling Jane, a pretty young lady who gets herself involved in situations and somehow ends up losing her dresses in the process. The lead, Ms. Oorter, was the model for Jane, but herein lies the problem for me. I feel that though she is an attractive lady she was too old to play her (she was about 36 when the film was released). I imagined Jane should be younger and they somewhat rectified that situation in a film called "Jane And The Lost City", made in the 80's. This film muddles along and the plot is pretty flimsy. There are elements of interest, but I feel even Peter Butterworth, who was in many Carry On films later, is somewhat wasted as a drunken man just stumbling around. Not horrible by any means, its just not that good. "Jane And The Lost City", though campy, was better. This film is less than an hour, but I still feel it was not good enough.
    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.
    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!!

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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
      • 1h(60 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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