The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)

Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the ... See full summary »

Directors:

Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt

Writer:

Charles Ross

Stars:

Jayne Mansfield, Robert Jason, Fernand Aubrey

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jayne Mansfield	...	Herself
Robert Jason	...	Narrator
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fernand Aubrey
Monte Duro
Lino Enner
Brigitte Halberg
Bob Oliver
Rocky Roberts
Lila Solh

Storyline

Jayne takes us on a review of her last world tour. She takes us through Rome, shares a fantasy about Roman athletes, and then is off to Cannes. She takes a trip to the nudist colony on the Isle of Levant, where she almost kind of joins in. Then it's off to Paris, where she gets a beauty treatment from Fernand Aubrey, and attends some racy dance revues. In New York and Los Angeles, she visits some topless clubs and listens to a topless all-girl pop band. The film wraps up with some posthumous footage of her family in mourning.

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Plot Keywords:

rome italy | stripper | paris france | eiffel tower paris | female nudity | 

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Taglines:

Tour the World's Hottest Spots with the Sex Goddess Herself!!

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Genres:

Comedy | Documentary

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Details

Country:

France West Germany USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

July 1969 (Austria)

Also Known As:

Die wilde Welt der Jayne Mansfield

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jad Films,Parnass Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min 90 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Under the working title "Jayne Mansfield Reports Europe", the actual footage following the famous sex symbol around Paris and Rome was shot in the spring and summer of 1964, with additional filming in New York City later the same year. Existing footage from two of Mansfield's previously shot films (The Loves of Hercules (1960) and Primitive Love (1964)) were later inserted into this mondo-doc.

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Connections

Edited from Primitive Love (1964)

User Reviews

Watchable first half turns to dull filler in the second

After the death of Mansfield in 1967 this weird piece of film was cobbled together from footage shot years before her death. The idea is that its a record of Jaynes world tour. The trouble is that nothing happens. Jayne and or her body double walks around Europe and America as she visits odd spots like a gay night club or a nudist island. We get a breathless Jayne like imitator speaking about her trips and life in a dumb blonde sort of way.

Worse is the fact that there wasn't enough footage with Jayne to make a movie so sequences are used from several of her films, stills from her Playboy spread and other cheese cake shots. Other sequences were filmed and reaction shots of Jayne were inserted. This is fine for awhile but once the film gets to the halfway point I hit the fast forward since things became duller and duller since it became more clear that this was a greed production.

Of course the kicker and the reason that the film remains in the minds of bad cinema lovers is the last ten minutes. A screech of tires and the camera shakes as get to witness the accident photos of Mansfield death drive. Sure they're black and white but they are ghoulish. More ghoulish is the shots of her ex husband Mickey Hargitay and her sons walking around her home forlornly as news reports of the accident are played on the soundtrack. Where the hell did this left turn come from? This is a rather minor mondo film, that is both less and more interesting in that the one death it has is of its star. But outside of that there isn't much to recommend it, except that there are worse things than the first half of this film.