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)
Plots(1)
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)
(more)Cast
Parker Fennelly
USA
Best movies:
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Pretty Poison (1968)
John McGovern
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Birds (1963)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Gina Gillespie
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
James Lanphier
USA
Best movies:
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Fury of the Dragon (1976) - a.f.
John Gibson
USA
Best movies:
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Daniel Ocko
USA
Best movies:
The Wrong Man (1956)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Walter Greaza
USA
Best movies:
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Boomerang! (1947)
The Street with No Name (1948)
Terry Melcher
USA
Best movies:
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Norman Katkov
Ukraine
Best movies:
It Happened to Jane (1959)