Directed by:
Richard QuineScreenplay:
Norman KatkovCinematography:
Charles Lawton Jr.Composer:
George DuningCast:
Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney, Russ Brown, Mary Wickes, Max Showalter, Robert Paige, Jayne Meadows, Henry Morgan (more)VOD (1)
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Jane Osgood (Day) is a widowed mother who runs a struggling lobster business in coastal Maine, while Harry Malone (Kovacs) is a wealthy businessman who has bought out the local railroad. He harbors big plans for it, aiming to transform it into a luxury passenger train, replacing the freight train the residents of the area depend upon. When a large lobster shipment of Jane's is rerouted and returned to her dead, she decides to fight back, and sues Malone with the help of her longtime friend and lawyer George Denham. This instigates a battle of increasingly epic proportions, as Malone uses every trick in the book--as well as his massive bank account--to quell the resolve of the spitfire businesswoman; Jane, for her part, has public sympathy on her side. A reporter for the national news doing a story on Jane (Forrest) begins to fall in love with her, and she is forced to decide between the romantic journalist and her childhood friend, George. (official distributor synopsis)
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It Happened to Jane is a classic positive film, where it seems that a young woman is unable to defeat a juggernaut railroad tycoon, but you know the entire time that this is the film world and that it is in fact possible, even if it is very hard to believe. Also, Jack Lemmon is so good that you believe him even during that insanely moralizing speech.
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