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
Doris Day
USA
Best movies:
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Jack Lemmon
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
JFK (1991)
The Apartment (1960)
Ernie Kovacs
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
Steve Forrest
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Teddy Rooney
USA
Best movies:
Les 7 Chemins du couchant (1960)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Russ Brown
USA
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Advise and Consent (1962)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Mary Wickes
USA
Best movies:
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Little Women (1994)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Max Showalter
USA
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Dangerous Crossing (1953)
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Robert Paige
USA
Best movies:
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Jayne Meadows
China
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Undercurrent (1946)
The Player (1992)
Henry Morgan
USA
Best movies:
Murder, Inc. (1960)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Betsy Palmer
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
The Tin Star (1957)
Philip Coolidge
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Bon Voyage! (1962)
North by Northwest (1959)
Dick Crockett
USA
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Spartacus (1960)
Carter DeHaven
USA
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Marcel Hillaire
German Empire
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Bon Voyage! (1962)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Sabrina (1954)
Elaine Edwards
USA
Best movies:
The Harder They Fall (1956)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Guns, Girls, and Gangsters (1959)
Arthur Hanson
USA
Best movies:
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It Happened to Jane (1959)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
Napolen Whiting
USA
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The Tall Target (1951)
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Howard Wendell
USA
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
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