Product Details

• Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Robert Jason, Fernand Aubrey, Monte Duro, Lino Enner
• Directors: Alfonso Brescia, Arthur Knight, Charles W. Broun Jr., Joel Holt
• Writers: Charles Ross, Giacinto Ciaccio, Giorgio Carlo Rossi, Massimo D'Avak
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 12, 2003
• Run Time: 177 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000A0DX8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #60,275 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield / The Labyrinth of Sex (Something Weird)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

It's a mondo-style celebration of all things Jayne Mansfield in which the starlet turns a European vacation into a Skin-Goddess Spectacle! See Jayne visit a nudist colony on the Isle of Levant! Go with Jayne to a gay bar where she quickly gets confused! J

Product Description

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Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-AUG-2003
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Strange Mix, January 5, 2004

By	Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is an unusual disk in that the contents are not really of the same theme.

First we have the Wild World of Jayne Mansfield. Jayne was a very intelligent beauty who excelled at playing the dumb blond. This film shows Jayne touring Europe after her nude Playboy appearance. But just when you get used to seeing things through her eyes, the film switches scope as we reach the point of her death in a car crash. The film then becomes a retrospective showing her widower, children, and her mansion. The film really ends on a rather sad note.

The second film is The Labyrinth of Sex, a supposed documentary on sexual deviation. This is more a collection of vignettes with a doctor lecturing between them. There is an operating room scene that is not for the squeamish. All in all the film seemed like something that was done just because it could be.

Parisian Rendezvous is one of the short films included on the disk. Two lovers circle the glob in opposite directions rushing to be back in each other's arms. This film has some of the sadness of the Jayne Mansfield film.

Finally we have The Apple Knockers and the Coke. This is a silent striptease short staring Marilyn Monroe. A fake apple tree, a bottle of coke and Marilyn's attributes star in this multi-part short.

All in all an unusual assortment of films with each aiming at a different audience.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Fabulous DVD ! A must-have of any Mansfield Fan, June 2, 2006

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

I owned the VHS version of ''The Wild,Wild World'' but decided to get the DVD this winter.
WELL..That was a great purchase !
I understand people that could see the documentary of Jayne in Europe,as pretty cheaply made,BUT it is still Jayne,and if you love her (as I do),any film she was in (except The Girl can't help it,and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter) was done on the cheap,with ridiculously small budgets.
'The Wild,Wild World' gives you the chance to see a candid Jayne in all kinds of very campy situations,and the best scenes are when Jayne pretends to be offended by the goings-on...
It shows a Jayne Mansfield who was indeed a true-original,rather eccentric person in the anal-retentive American Fifties.I can't help comparing her to what Anna Nicole Smith has done with her 'career' as a media sensation,BUT Jayne was doing basically the same FIFTY years ago,which was understandbly much more shocking for the common-folks.
When Jayne talks about her film roles,you wonder if she is laughing with you or at herself.
I don't understand how she can be compared to Marilyn Monroe.MM was looking for privacy,more serious roles,spoke to journalists only if she absolutely had to,when Jayne was waking up her daughter in the middle of the night to prepare drinks for journalists who needed something to write about.Jayne was not too picky about her roles,and the kind of attention she was getting,and it was her undoing.Sad,but she needed the money to keep up that image,all those children,dogs,and...husbands.
NOW ,about ''The Labyrinth of Sex'': It is HYSTERICAL !! and a great choice to make the DVD a double-feature,just like the good-old days of the Drive-ins !
When you get over the awful dubbing,the documentary is rather well made,naive to today's standards of course,but well-intentionned.Some viewers will just see crass-exploitation,but if you are into Campy,Kitsch movies,and you see Ed Wood Jr. as a genius...well you will love IT !.The movie trailers are very funny as well,and make you wish you could find them.
So my conclusion is that DVD is an EXCELLENT purchase,a must-have for any serious Jayne Mansfield Fan !!!

2.0 out of 5 stars The Wild,Wild World of Jayne Mansfield., November 30, 2009

By	Jose Lopez "Jose Lopez" (Miami,Florida USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Wild,Wild World of Jayne Mansfield:

I agree apparently none of the folks who appeared in this film had/have no shame. Jayne R.I.P. Was Gorgeous but sadly misguided and trapped with the wrong people, like hanging out with Satanists? what's up with that?
Such a Beautiful star(more prettier than Marilyn in my opinion). This movie came to my attention,because it is on youtube, and I saw it. And I have heard of her, it's a bonus that you see her nude in clips of Promises,Promises.
Other than that, it's her in Rome,Or Paris(ew), or back to NYC to see a drag Show.(ew) . oh well . Only plus is seeing her.