Yes, it was quite soppy. But, I've always liked Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, and Eve Arden. It's not a story I'd care about seeing drawn by an artist, let alone using stills from the film with captions and dialogue balloons. It's also a bit far-fetched. That choice about being able to save either the mother or the baby might be a situation that sometimes occurs in real life. But combining it with the already extremely coincidental events that built the odd love-hate relationship between the sisters is too much to take, and makes the ending seem too unnatural and the formerly estranged couple's reactions to each other seem very unlikely. Also, what is not shown in the film, and left to the assumption of the viewer, that Jane and William conceived their child on their wedding night, and at no later than a handful of months after that, before Jane would start showing her pregnancy, she ran away and hid from her husband, so he couldn't stop her from having the baby and sealing her own doom at that young age. It is way too much like a fairy tale a sappy, moralistic one, at that. That she would make such a choice, and he, and the police would be so ineffective at finding her is too much to believe.
In any case, with no fabulous artwork by a great artist, it would have no redeeming features. I wouldn't have wasted my precious dimes on such so-called "comic books". I wonder who was buying this one?
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Topic: Re: Hollywood Film Stories 2 (Read 187 times)
