Primitive Love & Mondo Balordo
by Albert T. Viola, Luigi Scattini, Roberto Bianchi Montero
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Actor: Carlo Kechler, Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco Franchi, Jayne Mansfield, Mickey HargitayDirector: Albert T. Viola, Luigi Scattini, Roberto Bianchi Montero
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Luigi Scattini
Writer: Amedeo Sollazzo
Writer: Francesco Torti
Writer: Guido Castaldo
Writer: Massimo Pupillo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 164 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Primitive Love & Mondo Balordo
Movie Review: Oh, Jayne!
Summary: 5 Stars
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".
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