Jayne Mansfield

  • Terence Young – Too Hot to Handle AKA Playgirl After Dark (1960)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaTerence YoungUnited Kingdom

    Plot Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
    With dialogue ranging from flat to offensive and acting in the same range, this low-brow erotic crime drama by director Terence Young stars Jayne Mansfield as Midnight Franklin, a star stripper in a Soho club that is in serious rivalry with another strip joint. A reporter gets involved in the strip scene while writing a story on the clubs, and in the end he has quite a lot to write about. The competition between the two clubs heats up, and after one of the owners is the unknowing instrument in the death of a young (illegally young) stripper, both rival clubs head for a crash.Read More »

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