I'm surprised at the gushing reviews; I didn't think this one was that good. It's a decent story, and it's well done, with good performances and all. I particularly liked Jeanette Nolan as Granny Hart-- just delicious. But the story lacks any kind of twist ending; indeed, by the time we reach the climax, it's pretty anticlimactic. Part of the problem is that the story is rather padded to fill the hour-long format. The whole thing would've been tighter and better if it ended after Billy-Ben (or whatever his name was) shoots the leopard, finds the ring, and realizes he's just actually killed Jess-Belle. Let the story be that she really is dead and gone at that point, the end. Everything that happens after that in the story is really pretty superfluous.
Review of Jess-Belle
