The two worlds of Jenny Logan

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Movie
German title The two worlds of Jenny Logan
Original title The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1979
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Frank De Felitta
script Frank De Felitta
production Betty T. Gunn
Paul B. Radin
music Glenn Paxton
camera Al Francis
cut John F. Schreyer
occupation

Jenny Logan's Two Worlds is an American television film from 1979 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel Second Sight by David L. Williams .

action

To save their marriage, Jenny and Michael Logan move into an old Victorian house in the country, far from the city and Michael's old affairs. Michael slept with his students and since Jenny believes in the institution of marriage, divorce is out of the question for them. Shortly afterwards she finds an old Victorian dress in the attic, which she tries on. She faints with a severe headache and wakes up in her attic in 1899. A man shouts for Pamela and she travels back. She then puts the dress back on twice and each time travels back to 1899 and twice has to flee from the man who calls her Pamela and pursues her. Wondering who this man could be, she goes to the Chesapequa Historical Society to investigate. It turns out that it could possibly be the painter David Reynolds, who lost his beloved wife Pamela to a tragic accident with a runaway wild horse shortly after the wedding. Unable to bear the death of his beloved, he withdrew and went mad. There was only one painting left of him. When Jenny sees the picture, she thinks she sees herself in the mirror.

Although all Jenny's acquaintances and friends think that she is only hallucinating, she considers her journey through time to be a reality. On the next trip, she decides not to run away from David. When she meets him chopping wood, he realizes that Jenny is not his beloved Pamela. Both get close and Jenny travels back to her time with a flower gift from David, with which she also has proof that she is not hallucinating. Michael is less than enthusiastic about her obsession with the past and wants to move away with her again. But Jenny is more and more interested in David and his problems. Because not only Elizabeth Harrington, Pamela's sister, wants something from him, but also Mr. Harrington, Pamela's father, believes that David killed Pamela, which is why he is now seeking revenge. But Jenny doesn't let that irritate her. She comes closer to David, lets him paint her and after they both fell into the water at the lake and dried each other, they sleep together.

Back in the present, Jenny researches how David died and learns that he died of a firearm one night during the centenary. She tells David about it, sees the picture he drew of her and she will see it later in the future, and agrees to leave Michael and travel with him either to Amsterdam or to Paris . But it doesn't come to that, because Mr. Harrington appears, beats David with his whip and challenges him to a duel at the centenary. On the day of the celebration, Jenny sneaks to Harrington's house, breaks in and manipulates his guns. Then she dances with David at the party.

Back in her time, she learns from the aged Elizabeth Harrington that she herself once shot David out of jealousy, not Mr. Harrington. So Jenny hurries back to her house to her dress, where she is prevented by a screaming Michael. This is beside himself with anger, he wants Jenny to stay with him and not constantly follow her fantasies from days long gone. But Jenny rips her dress from his hands, escapes into the attic, locks it and travels back to 1899, where she quickly runs to the duel between Harrington and David. There she throws herself at Elizabeth, who comes out of the forest to shoot David. When Michael breaks the door to the attic, all he can find is his dead wife. After the funeral, he finds more pictures of David in the house. These show him and Jenny, how she led a long and happy life with David and had several children with him.

criticism

Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times said that this "old-fashioned film that was slowly approaching its sentimental climax over two hours" was light fare, so he was surprised that the "actors were so unusually good." Wagner plays her role as "warm, charming and vulnerable" and Feinstein "convinces" too. However, he also warned the potential viewer not to waste any thought on the story or the development of the characters.

publication

The film first aired on television on October 31, 1979 on CBS . It was broadcast for the first time on German television on December 14, 1986 on the East German television station DFF 2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Howard Rosenberg: "Lindsay Wagner as Jennie Logan" , Los Angeles Times , October 31, 1979, E20