The Adventures of Jane

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.

'Jane' was a popular comic strip character seen in British newspapers in the 1940s. She was a glamorous figure, ever losing her clothing in order to titillate the war-haunted male readership, and THE ADVENTURES OF JANE is a film designed to bring her voluptuous talents to the screen. It was made in Brighton on an obviously cheap budget, but sadly other than the novelty value there isn't really much reason to tune in.

The problem with the film isn't Jane so much, as Christabel Leighton-Porter does a pretty good job in the role. She's no actress, of course, but she's a statuesque blonde who makes an impact. There are a couple of mildly racy moments in which she loses her skirt or parades around in her underwear, but these feel very tame by modern standards and of course there's no nudity even hinted at.

The rest of the plot is episodic in nature and involves a gang of criminals who use Jane to smuggle a priceless diamond into the country. The emphasis is on dated and genteel comedy throughout but the film lacks decent actors and plotting to make it work. Jane's dachshund, Frits, is probably the best actor in it. Watch out for Peter Butterworth in a random extended cameo playing a drunk.

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.

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

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.