Product Details

• Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mickey Hargitay, Carlo Kechler
• Directors: Albert T. Viola, Luigi Scattini, Roberto Bianchi Montero
• Writers: Luigi Scattini, Amedeo Sollazzo, Francesco Torti, Guido Castaldo, Massimo Pupillo
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 27, 2001
• Run Time: 164 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QBZ2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,792 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Primitive Love & Mondo Balordo" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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PRIMITIVE LOVE/MONDO BALORDO - DVD Movie

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh, Jayne!, January 23, 2002

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repelli "repelli" (Virginia, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Primitive Love & Mondo Balordo (DVD)

Not quite as deleriously goofy as Jayne's post-mortem masterpiece "The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield" (Hint: PLEASE! Something Weird put that one out on DVD!!!), but sure to thrill fans of Jayne and her bizarre exploitation phase, the best of her career. One scene, which might just be the dictionary definition of "camp", has Jaynie hula-dancing in a fake jungle set with a black wig to the strains of an Annette Funicello record! The plot, such as it is, involves Jayne's quest for academic acceptance of her anthropological theories in an uncaring world. She demonstrates her ideas with the usual array of "mondo" film clips in her hotel room. Shameless mugging ensues from Franco and Ciccio, two Italian comics who are delightfully surreal in their sheer UN-funniness as they try to get a peek at Jayne and her shocking footage. Jayne also does a tame (no real nudity) but sexy striptease which turns a guy into a werewolf. Jayne's husband Mickey Hargitay has an unusual, challenging role in that he appears in several scenes but has the same line in each. Although I don't know a word of Italian, the weirdly catchy theme song got stuck in my head for days.
The second feature, Mondo Balordo is also a lot of fun but Boris Karloff only narrates and doesn't appear in the film. It's a typical "Mondo" movie not especially more or less shocking than Mondo Cane, but like all of these movies, has a handful of great scenes. More fun are the trailers for other mondo movies that trim the filler and show the best gore and debauchery moments, for those of us with attention deficit disorder.
Both movies look great on the DVD when compared to VHS copies, though DVD purists might be annoyed by some flickering color fading in "Primitive Love", but it's certainly the best you will ever see a rare title like this that isn't curated like some studio "classics".

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Turn off your mind & relax, December 18, 2001

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Howard Sauertieg "Howard Sauertieg" (Harrisburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Primitive Love & Mondo Balordo (DVD)

This is an interesting document of "mondo" (world) films from the 1960s, when I guess they were in vogue. "Mondo" movies were collections of live, on-the-spot films of people in their native environments, the more unusual or "forbidden" the better.

This disc includes trailers for about a dozen such films, most of which feature nudity and sensationalism. If the two feature films are not particularly shocking anymore, the trailers still have the power to shock or offend people (see in particular the trailers for "Mondo Freudo" and "Mondo Oscenita"). The bottom line is usually "Never have you seen anything like this -- you won't believe your eyes, but everything you'll see in this movie is REAL!!!" This sort of thing fits nicely in the context of the Sexual Revolution, as it tends to justify a revolt from the staid mores of Western civilization by showing various options available to the adventurous thrill-seeker.

The two features on the disc, Primitive Love and Mondo Balordo, are definite examples of sexploitation masquerading as an academic effort to reveal the Shocking Truth of human behavior. Primitive Love is certainly a wretched comedy, an Italian feature in the unfunny teasing/slapstick tradition of Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, but the home-movie portions (the "mondo" segments) are interesting. Mondo Balordo is about 20 minutes too long, but some of its segments hold up well (the opener, where a midget lady is escorted down the sidewalk by a normal-sized man and hustled into a back seat for some heavy petting is guaranteed to please...). Fans of Jayne Mansfield and/or Boris Karloff will certainly want to see these, even if they aren't crown jewels in their respective careers.

The intermission-shorts included with these films are nicely incongruous, the longest one being a collection of ads for Pennsylvania Dutch Country merchants who doubtless would have frowned upon the very existence of "mondo" culture.

All in all, an enjoyable three hours of "drive-in" madness, and certainly something different for your TV.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Fall of Jayne Mansfield, May 16, 2007

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Michelle De Ville (Laurentians,Quebec) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Primitive Love & Mondo Balordo (DVD)

I had been seeking this movie for quite a while.
The people behind ''Something Weird Video'' really believe in the notion of ''Give'em what they want'' but also the concept of ''value for money''.This combo is not as attractive as the one with ''The Wild,Wild World of Jayne Mansfield+The Labyrinth of Sex'' and that is why I give it 4 stars instead of 5.
If you forget the awful wig Jayne is wearing (was the budget so low that they could not even afford a hairdresser ?),her body looks really good,and you laugh with her,not at her when she carries on with her intricate dance numbers.Poor Mickey Hargitay has a small role,that makes you want to watch ''The Loves of Hercules'' where you could at least see his outstanding physique.The two italian actors doing a really cheap imitation of Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis duo,would get arrested if behaving in public in their peculiar and creepy fashion.
The second part ''Mondo Balardo'' has to be the cheapest ''Mondo Cane''-inspired movie.It is still interesting in a ''what the hay ?''type of reaction.
Conclusion:Get that DVD,and show it to your non-Jayne Mansfield admirers friends,if you want to make sure that they will never spend another video-night at your place.However if you are a Jayne Mansfield,watch it as a guilty little pleasure...))