Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.
Jayne Mansfield
- Self
- (archive footage)
Mickey Hargitay
- Self - Jayne's Husband
- (archive footage)
Dick Randall
- Man on Via Veneto
- (as Bob Oliver)
- …
Robert Jason
- Narrator
- (voice)
Barbara Branch
- Self - Guitarist
- (as The Ladybirds)
Deborah Dayan
- Self - Keyboardist
- (as The Ladybirds)
- Directors
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaUnder the working title "Jayne Mansfield Reports Europe", actual footage of her in Paris and Rome was shot in the spring and summer of 1964, and edited with clips from other movies. On her return to America, additional filming in New York City and Hollywood was done later the same year. All segments were done in Mondo style. Following Mansfield's death in 1967 accident, portions of her narration for this film were recorded by an uncredited voice actress who sounds like her.
- Quotes
Jayne Mansfield: That night, we went to a nightclub, the Blue Bunny. The sign said it was a topless club. What could be inside, I wondered. Topless customers? Ooh, that girl - she was so lovely! But good thing they had her in a cage. The featured act came on, the Ladybirds. Ooh, they were good! I was surprised - they were all lovely girls! As for the girl in the cage: A little silicone will go a long, long way!
- Crazy creditsThe featured persons in the opening credits ends with «...and a cast of thousands of Jayne's friends all over the world». This is blatantly not true, as if the number of pedestrians do not reach one thousand if you count them all, and Jayne is shown in very few parts of the world. A crazy hype for the movie.
- Alternate versionsIn Italy, after the initial ban (July 30, 1968) the Distributor Patry Film got an approval for adults (over 18) but to copy cut to 2100 meters (76m33s).
- ConnectionsEdited from The Loves of Hercules (1960)
- SoundtracksThe Bird is The Word
Performed by Rocky Roberts and The Airdales(uncredited)
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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.
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.
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- dbborroughs
- Jan 20, 2008
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Jayne Mansfield Reports
- Filming locations
- Île du Levant, Hyères, Var, France(Jayne goes topless aboard the riverboat to the island, and visits its naturist beach and Le Bazar d'Heliopolis.)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968) officially released in Canada in English?
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