Too Hot to Handle (1960) on Netflix
A French journalist arrives in Soho to write about its hidden strip clubs. Club owner Johnny Solo faces threats and protection demands, and his girlfriend Midnight Franklin wants him to quit.
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Plot summary
Johnny Solo runs the Pink Flamingo, a strip club in London's Soho, and is locked in a feud with Diamonds Dinelli, who owns a rival club, while the police keep watch on him. Johnny is threatened and pressed for protection money, and he fights back. Midnight Franklin, the Pink Flamingo's headline performer and Johnny's girlfriend, wants him to give up the business. Robert Jouvel, a French journalist, arrives in London to write about the clubs and is drawn into the strip scene. Among the club's regulars are also a client who likes to cause pain and a chorus girl who is under age.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Too Hot to Handle (1960)
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- Filming was halted on 24 September, three weeks before the end, at the order of Actors' Equity when £100,000 of the budget failed to materialise, partly because Sydney Box, who was slated to produce, was ill. Jayne Mansfield and Leo Genn agreed to deferments and a mystery investor, reportedly Sol Lesser, provided £100,000 to resume shooting.
- For America it was retitled Playgirl After Dark, printed in black and white and edited to meet censor requirements; this famously included animating clothing onto Jayne Mansfield during her title song, with frame enlargements and cuts to the audience.
- Jayne Mansfield's risqué see-through clothing and the film's racy musical numbers caused controversy that delayed its American release until January 1961, and the sexiest frames were displayed in Playboy magazine.
- Many scenes were shot twice with the dancers wearing more or less clothing, so the uncensored French release used the skimpier takes and a different edit of Mansfield's title song, while the German color release mixed both versions and cut most of her song "You Were Made For Me", a parody of Marilyn Monroe.
- Too Hot to Handle was Jayne Mansfield's first film away from 20th Century Fox after she achieved stardom in the mid-1950s; Fox had loaned her to other studios while awaiting a suitable film for her.
