Stop the Bitch Campaign (2001)
aka Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô
A man humiliates teenage prostitutes to get them off the streets. Black comedy based on a Japanese manga. (IMDB)
Female Jungle (1956)
Female Jungle (1956)
A blonde actress is murdered across from a bar. An off-duty cop has been getting pleasantly sloshed, but becomes worried about his innocence when he finds out he was seen leaving the establishment with a blonde, but doesn’t remember. As he investigates, he interviews a columnist who was going with the actress, a caricaturist who drew the victim, the caricaturist’s wife who works at the bar, and the caricaturist’s lover, and slowly begins to put the pieces of the deadly puzzle together. (IMDB)
Jayne Mansfield was paid $150 for her role and went back to her job selling popcorn at a movie theater after making this movie.
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| John Carradine |
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| Jayne Mansfield |
Angel Face (1952)
Angel Face (1952)
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur; but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out. (IMDB Rod Crawford)
When Robert Mitchum got fed up with repeated re-takes in which director Otto Preminger ordered him to slap Jean Simmons across the face, he turned around and slapped Preminger, asking whether it was this way he wanted it. Preminger immediately demanded of producer Howard Hughes that Mitchum be replaced. Hughes refused.
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