The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan is available on Blu-Ray now from Kino Lorber and Scorpion Releasing. The actor’s unrecognizable, so it seems like a lot of effort to go through not to hire an older actress, plus why not have an older woman look like Olivia de Havilland or Cicely Tyson (who passed away earlier this year at age 96)?īeing a TV movie, the transitions are fairly low key (and no explanation is ever given for why time travel looks so painful), but Jennie Logan is an escapist treat that is surprisingly effective at pulling off misdirections. Not every plot point is thought through, like why, if Jennie looks so much like Pamela, doesn’t Pamela’s sister ( Linda Gray) react when she sees her? There’s also some terrifying old age makeup by future Oscar winner, Stan Winston (who also worked on The Autobiography of Miss. Wagner is wonderful and fun to watch during a fight sequence, where Bionic Woman has to do some exaggerated cowering. Soon shes torn between life with her philandering husband and. Some of the acting is on the flat side, especially from Singer and Henry Wilcoxon, whose line delivery as David’s angry father-in-law is pretty monotone. Jennie Logan discovers an antique dress in her attic that allows her to travel back in time. The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (Lindsay Wagner CBS TV Movie) Rewatch Classic TV 3. Who cares about David’s grief and the ramifications of falling in love with someone who looks like your dead wife, in true, Vertigo fashion? All of the moral quandaries are glossed over for shirtless men, men in short bathrobes, and men who don’t know how to button their shirts. (aka 'The Double Life of Jenny Logan') Directed by Frank De Felitta USA 1979 After moving into an old Victorian house with her husband, Jennie Logan (Lindsay Wagner) finds an antique dress in the attic-and discovers it has the power to transport her to another era. What’s great about The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan is it truly is a female fantasy. The bare-bones Scorpion / Kino Blu-ray is the significantly more reasonable of the two - it is nice to have the option. He also was married to a woman who bore an uncanny resemblance to Jennie, but she died shortly after their wedding, so he’s single now. She even has a time travel romance – because why fix a broken marriage when you can find someone to love in the 19 th century?įor Jennie, that person is David ( Mark Singer), an artist and the previous owner of Jennie’s new house. In the novel, Jennie merely finds a drawing of the white Victorian dress and has a replica made, whereas in the film she finds an actual white Victorian dress in the attic. In the Two worlds of Jennie Logan they keep the time travel aspect tightly bound in the confines of a love story. Somehow Jennie has stumbled on time travel and, through trial and error, starts to figure out how time travel works. The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979 TV Movie) Trivia Showing all 7 items The film is based on the 1977 novel 'Second Sight' by David L. Written and directed by Frank De Felitta, The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan is basically Outlander crossed with Titanic, which tells you a lot about what this film’s about. A young woman named Jennie Logan is trying to rebuild her shattered marriage.
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