Dog Eat Dog! (1964)

Wonderfully offbeat film!

That was an excellent one.

Boring

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

What can you say about a movie like this? There actually is a plot. That's more then I can say about a few of the movies I have watched in the last two years. Some thieves get lucky and manage to heist a shipment of American money leaving Europe. A million dollars worth! Back in 1964 that was quite a chunk of change. But the "lucky" thieves aren't so lucky after all. In the process of heisting the money, a guard is killed so all the police in the area are aggressively trying to hunt them down. They were smart enough to heist the dough, but not smart enough to keep it secret. They were talking too loud in the hotel room and were over heard by the manager who decides to pursue them and get the whole enchilada.Crazy things start to go wrong, the deserted island isn't deserted, people start dying and no one knows "whodunit". Of course some of the guys have to start a fight that smashes windows and breaks furniture but a bit later the glass door is intact. Two of the women get into a hair pulling cat fight on a boat, both fall in the water but as soon as we see Jayne out of the water, her hair is frizzy and dry as a bone while the other girl's hair is wet.The owner of the huge house on the island is definitely missing a few marbles and adds a bit of mystery to the movie. Cameron Mitchell plays the role of the tough guy and is probably the most convincing character in the whole mess. Jayne wiggles and jumps around like a party girl who doesn't seem to understand that there are some very dangerous people in the crowd. Close to the end you begin to wonder who really is the murderer?Another flub up is near the very end. One of the men is attacking one of the women because he thinks she is hiding the missing money. In doing so he is ripping off her shirt so she ends up in just her underwear. In one scene they turn so her back is to the camera showing a wide bra strap across her back with at least four hooks. Later, she is seen floating in the water face down with a very narrow strap across the back. I guess she stopped to change her bra before falling off the cliff.Those are a few of the things that make you groan. Some parts are so bad you have to laugh a bit. Dody Heath was actually quite cute in this picture and played a believable role as the doting, innocent, younger sister of a scoundrel.I rated it a five just because it gave me a few laughs at the absurdities.There was some gorgeous scenery and that building on the island was incredible. Lots of beautiful stone work and wood panels, and huge stairway. Really a grand old building.No Oscar performances here, just a bit of goofiness. Some will chuckle at this movie and finish it, others will leave about thirty minutes into it or just allow themselves to drift off to sleep.

What we have here, if you can believe it, is a chimera of film noir, early Russ Meyer, and a Ten Little Indians adaptation.The plot is verging on parody in its simplicity. Two crooks and a floozy (Jayne Mansfield), somewhere in the eastern Med, steal a million dollars (yes a million dollars exactly!) from a navy vessel transporting used $1000(?!) bills to be destroyed. The robbery isn't shown, which is all to the good really, as I don't really think there was a Peckinpah type amongst the four guys apparently at the helm. In point of fact though it's never the robbery that's interesting is it? That's why I hate heist movies that concentrate on the plan and the safe-cracking, the interesting bit is always the squabbling over the loot.The crooks end up on a sailing boat on the way to a deserted island which houses a disused palatial brothel. They pick up a couple of greedy stragglers on the way (the eavesdropping hotelier Livio and his incest-fixated yet frigid sister). On the island a motor boat has been stashed somewhere for the getaway, but Corbett (the crook who has the gun) doesn't know where it is, nor where the petrol is hidden.Anyway the brothel has a woman and her manservant in residence, these two they broke the mould after making. The manservant is a cod-philosopher gypsy-talking henchman type, whilst the woman is an elderly ex-madame who has returned to the island "in order to die". She thinks she is the Empress of the island and is always talking about the Emperor, whoever that might be, she is mentally fragile to say the least.It becomes a Ten Little Indians style mêlée after the cash goes missing. People are dropping like flies, and we don't know why. Corbett sums up the mood perfectly: "Where da party at? No dough, enough stiffs for a graveyard, no way out, nobody knows who's next and nobody knows who's doin' it" It's a nice movie to look at because it's set on an Aegean island, with a pretty mansion, fluted columns, palm trees, flora, sunshine. There's a lot of luridness here too. Jayne Mansfield's nymphomaniac character Darlene can't seem to stop mentioning that she wants a fresh pair of panties, that she is on her last pair. There's jazz music all the way through, just so we know we're at a party.One user described this movie as unintentionally avant-garde, well I'd go along with that. This is the stuff that cults are made of. You wont believe the ending by and by.

"Dog Eat Dog" follows the backstabbing adventures of a group of thieves. This black and white, foreign production, is probably most notable for the presence of Jayne Mansfield. Her character, "Darlene" is a member of a three member criminal gang. She is both fond of money, clean underwear, and using the expression "crackers".Cameron Mitchell is the second member of the group, who is nearly dealt out of the game by the third (Ivor Salter). Mistrustful, but still bound by the money, the group takes to the sea to make their getaway, trailed by an opportunistic hotel manger (Aldo Carmada). Stopping at an island, they encounter a strange group in residency there. Greed and madness lead to murder. And the money becomes a ridiculous fashion accessory.Not a great deal of depth, to this B movie, but OK for some late evening intrigue and suspense.

This movie was okay. I saw it about a year ago real late at night. I only watched it because "THE JAYNE MANSFIELD" was in it. She is so beautiful. The kind of person you just want to have sit in front of you and stare at all day to study each feature. The movie lacked interest though. If you are a Jayne fan, see it. If you are looking for a good movie to watch, don't see it. 1-10 (4) Jayne 1-10 (10) Z.