The Adventures of Jane

In the United States, there is a stereotype that the British are extremely well mannered and sophisticated. This is in spite of evidence to the contrary which seems to say they can be just as lowbrow and dopey as the rest of us. Sure, they have produced many classic films as well as television shows (such as "Downton Abbey" and "I, Claudius")....but they also have brought the world "The Benny Hill Show" and drivel like "The Adventures of Jane".

So what IS "The Adventures of Jane"? Well, apparently it is a movie based on a comic strip for adults and Jane is apparently very accident prone and always ends up having her clothing ripped off of her! Sophisticated? Hardly! And in the film, it's pretty much what you'd expect, as it's filled with very bad jokes (the sorts you'd expect to hear on stage in a burlesque-type review) and Jane standing about in her underwear.

Overall, this film was too broadly written, acted and directed to be seen as anything other than a bad little curio. Apparently, the plan was originally to make a series of these films but the British public, fortunately, did not embrace the movie and further movies were dropped. It's bad and difficult to watch....trust me on this!

'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.

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.

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.

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.