Norman Pett’s Jane comic strip originally appeared in the Daily Mirror from December 1932 to October 1959 featuring the misadventures of a hapless heroine who had a disconcerting habit of losing her outer garments until she had to struggle through her various escapades in nothing more than her underwear.
Here Jane is played by Kirsten Hughes. She is sent on a mission by the British government to a mythical Lost City in Africa to find diamonds before they fall into the hands of the Nazis.
She teams up with an American named Jungle Jack Buck (Sam Jones) and some Nazi villains (Maud Adams and Jasper Carrott) are out to stop them.
The direction is flat and the performances are terrible. Maud Adams, in particular, seems embarrassed to be here and Jasper Carrott’s desperate and unfunny mugging is almost painful to behold.
Jane
Kirsten Hughes Jungle Jack Buck
Sam Jones Lola Pagola
Maud Adams Heinrich/Herman/Hans
Jasper Carrott Tombs
Graham Stark The Colonel
Robin Bailey Carl
Ian Roberts Leopard Queen
Elsa O’Toole Dr Schell
John Rapley Paddy Rafferty
Charles Comyn Captain Charles Fawcett
Ian Steadman General Smythe-Paget
Graham Armitage Churchill
Richard Huggett Barman
Nic Potgieter Grenville
Andrew Buckland
Director
Terry Marcel
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A television version in the early 1980s starred the gorgeous Glynis Barber.
Jane
The Colonel
General Smythe-Paget
