{"id":9155,"date":"2013-09-14T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T02:35:19","slug":"nancy-drew-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/nancy-drew-films\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at the Nancy Drew Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=adamsblog03-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000NVL1YU&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1938 and 1939 saw the release of four films starring Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew. In the film, Drew is a precocious teenager who is always stumbling into mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>These are light mystery comedies with typical 1930s suspense stories. The mysteries aren&#8217;t bad, but the comedy really reigns supreme. The books and the movies are like night and day. This was really standard Hollywood practice when they&#8217;d bring a detective to radio or film. They&#8217;d be far more likely to adapt the character to what was popular at the time rather than take a risk on making a movie based on what made the books work.<\/p>\n<p>Thus Nancy while bright, intelligent, and brave, also makes some klutzy mistakes and can charge in too quickly to danger, making her a typical 1930s heroine. \u00a0Other changes are less clear. Why they changed the boyfriend&#8217;s name from &#8220;Ned&#8221; to &#8220;Ted&#8221; I&#8217;ll never know.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the movies are good fun for what they are, light mysteries with a touch of Screwball comedy. The best of the films is the only one in the public domain: Nancy Drew, Reporter. It features a pretty intriguing plot and the comedy consistently hits with one scene where Nancy, her boyfriend, and two younger kids perform a song to get out of a tight spot in a scene that seems like an inspiration for the 80s cult hit <em>Adventures in Babysitting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom: All four films are pretty fun but those expecting the straighter mysteries and the super competence of Nancy in the novels may be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Rating 3.5 Stars out of 5.0<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your Kindle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1938 and 1939 saw the release of four films starring Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew. In the film, Drew is a precocious teenager who is always stumbling into mysteries. These are light mystery comedies with typical 1930s suspense stories. The mysteries aren&#8217;t bad, but the comedy really reigns supreme. 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