Dog Eat Dog (1964)

Directors:

Richard E. Cunha
Gustav Gavrin

Writers:

Robert Bloomfield (novel)
Michael Elkins (writer)

Release Date:

13 July 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

The action EXPLODES right between your eyes!

Plot:

Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage)...

Plot Keywords:

Caper | Animal In Title | Based On Novel | Independent Film

Cast

Jayne Mansfield	...	Darlene
Cameron Mitchell	...	Lylle Corbett
Ivor Salter	...	Dolph Kostis
Siegfried Lowitz	...	Traitor gangster
Elisabeth Flickenschildt	...	Xenia
Isa Miranda	...	Madame Benoit
Aldo Camarda	...	Livio Morelli
Dodie Heath	...	Sandra
Ines Taddio	...	German singer
Pinkas Braun	...	Janis the butler
Werner Peters	...	Detective Gino
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Gardett

Also Known As:

Einer frißt den anderen (West Germany)
L'ora di uccidere (Italy)
La morte vestita di dollari (Italy)
When Strangers Meet (UK)

Runtime:

84 min | West Germany:78 min

Country:

West Germany | Liechtenstein | Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:18 (nf)

Filming Locations:

Yugoslavia

Company:

Dubrava Film

Trivia:

A host of production problems, including financing, location and personnel issues, caused filming to be stopped several times, resulting in at least four different directors - regardless of their experience in musical comedies - working on the project at various times. One director, Ray Nazarro, specialized almost exclusively in "B" westerns and cheap hillbilly musicals for Columbia, and was hired because he just happened to be in Europe when a director was needed. Producer Albert Zugsmith also directed some scenes in the periods between when one director left and another was hired.

Quotes:

Darlene: I'd rather have fresh panties in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Social drama and great performance!

It is a pity that with badly edited bootleg copies, you no longer can enjoy to the full with the witty social criticism, and the psychological analysis of the characters as the original movie was intended to. Even a poor version (I got mine from the WWW as "Dog Eat Dog") you should not miss Jayne's great performance. She was not under the best directors, the richest producers, with the best casts Hollywood could afford - but she was a major personality, and she shows it everywhere: namely here, in this little, wonderful film - dark, so dark, as Jayne's life was going to be. Notable also for Jayne's only fight scene on a boat, and on the seashore, trying to escape a no-escape island.