It Happened to Jane (1959)

Directors

Richard Quine

Cast

Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney, Mary Wickes

The story

In May 1959, in the town of Cape Anne, Maine, an error by the E&P railroad company causes the death of 300 lobsters shipped by entrepreneur Jane Osgood, who runs a business supplying lobsters to restaurants. Jane, a widow with two children, asks her lifelong friend and lawyer George Denham to seek compensation from the railroad after her customer cancels all future orders. At the E&P office in New York City, an executive by the name of Harry Foster Malone learns about the lawsuit.

Genres

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