It Happened to Jane

It Happened to Jane(1959)

NR
05/24/1959 (US)Comedy, Romance1h 37m
6.1

"It's bigger than all of us!"

Overview

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".

Richard Quine

Director

Norman Katkov

Screenplay

Norman Katkov

Story

Max Wilk

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A review by John Chard
6.0

Written on October 3, 2015

Not quite a Lobster Newberg.

Doris Day is an astute businesswoman who deals in the mass production of Lobsters. When her latest delivery goes awry due to incompetence of the E&P Railroad, she decided to take them on. All while affairs of the heart try to come into play.

Nothing really wrong with the film as such, it's all very harmless, a pleasant romantic comedy, with a likable cast (Jack Lemmon & Ernie Kovacs join Day)to while away the time with. It's just not a very interesting story, one where the love arc plays second fiddle to a bunch of over cooked sequences elsewhere. Whilst what could have been a strong feminist front never quite gets driven home. 6/10