Jayne Mansfield Archives

Mansfield 66/67

About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life and the speculation swirling around her untimely death being caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan.

NR

4.4

2017 Documentary 84 min Play

4.5

Panic Button

A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.

NR

4.5

1964 Comedy 90 min Play

5.2

Promises! Promises!

After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.

NR

5.2

1963 Comedy 75 min Play

5.9

It Happened in Athens

In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets Christina Gratsos, a young woman from his hometown who is now the personal maid of Eleni Costa, Greece's most glamorous actress. Though he has arrived after the qualification date, Spiridon's athletic prowess so impresses Coach Graham of the American team that he is permitted to enter the contest. Eleni informs the press ...

NR

5.9

1962 Comedy 100 min Play

5

The George Raft Story

Ray Danton plays the title role in director Joseph M. Newman's 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star. The cast also includes Jayne Mansfield, Barrie Chase, Julie London, Neville Brand and Frank Gorshin.

NR

5

1961 Drama 106 min Play

4.2

Too Hot to Handle

A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.

NR

4.2

1960 Crime 90 min Play

5.6

The Challenge

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

NR

5.6

1960 Drama 101 min Play

3.2

The Loves of Hercules

Hercules must save his true love from an evil queen.

NR

3.2

1960 Adventure 98 min Play

6.8

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

The story centres around Jonathon Tibbs, the young son of a family of English gunsmiths. He travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. While there he inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon and from there the post of sheriff. He endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has and by multilateral diplomacy.

NR

6.8

1958 Comedy 103 min Play

6.4

The Wayward Bus

Three strangers embark on a life-changing journey on a fateful bus ride. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.

NR

6.4

1957 Drama 87 min Play

5.4

The Burglar

Burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden (Jayne Mansfield), to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.

NR

5.4

1957 Crime 90 min Play

6.7

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick. But she wants something too: he has to pretend to be her new lover.

NR

6.7

1957 Comedy 93 min Play

5.5

Kiss Them for Me

Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.

NR

5.5

1957 Comedy 105 min Play

5.3

Female Jungle

A drunk cop investigates the murder of a sexy blonde. The policeman -who can't remember the night before - starts getting worried when all fingers start pointing at him.

NR

5.3

1956 Crime 71 min Play

6.4

The Girl Can’t Help It

A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds out that she has no talent? And what is going to happen when the two fall in love?

PG

6.4

1956 Comedy 99 min Play