Primitive Love (1964)

Original title: L'Amore Primitivo

Director: Luigi Scattini

Writers: Massimo Pupillo, Luigi Scattini, Amedeo Sollazzo

Composer: Coriolano Gori

More info: IMDb

Tagline: It's the wildest, maddest, sexiest film of the year!

Plot: "Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.

My rating: 5/10

Will I watch it again?  No.

In the span of 77 minutes you don't get one second of a naked Jayne Mansfield.  She gets down to her sexy underwear but that's it.  You'd think she would considering this is Italian, made in the 60s and it's a lousy excuse for an exploitation picture to tease you into thinking she is.  I could stop there because that's all anyone cares about but I won't.  The film also stars the popular Italian comedic team of Ciccio and Franco as the two bellhops who go cuckoo for cocoa puffs over Mansfield and get into all kinds of slapstick hijinks.  In between all of that there is a LOT of filler from Doctor Mansfield's stock footage of African natives doing native-y things and footage made to blend in with that from the Philippines or some other Asian country that features topless women bathing in a river and so on.  The highlight is Mansfield's dance with the goofball Franco playing the congas.  That guy's facial expressions are impressive as hell and that look alone gets my laughing every time.  It's no surprise that he does that A LOT in this picture. 

The Something Weird Video DVD presents the film in fullscreen and loads the double feature (along with MONDO BALORDO (1964)) with 11 trailers (including the one for this film and the other one), two short films, three intermission shorts, a gallery of sexploitation art with drive-in intermission announcements and a groovy feature that allows you to enjoy everything on the disc as a drive-in double feature with goodies before, in between and after the films.  The disc is worth it just for the extras.  If you happen to like either film, then you got yourself a bonus.