Einer frisst den anderen (1964) User Reviews

A silly, odd movie with a surprise ending

[headhunter46 · 5/10 · 11 April 2013]

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.

Interesting

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 12 August 2020]

Richard E. Cunha didn't make many movies, but he sure made some insane ones. There's She Demons with TV Sheena Irish McCalla, fanged women and Nazis taking over an island long after the war. Giant from the Unknown, featuring a monster named Vargas the Giant and effects by Universal's Jack Pierce. Missile to the Moon, Frankenstein's Daughter, Girl In Room 13...none of these movies are normal.

He teams with German director Gustav Gavrin, cowboy director Ray Nazarro and Albert Zugsmith (Sappho Darling, Violated!, The Cult) for this movie. That's because production problems - financing, location and personnel issues - caused filming to stop several times and personnel changed along the way.

What we end up with is a tale of three robbers who steal a million and end up turning on one another. Actually, it soon becomes two, with Lylle Corbett (Cameron Mitchell) killing Dolph and Darlene (Jayne Mansfield) having to deal with it.

They end up on an island where everyone wants their money and everyone is ready to kill for it. You kind of have to love a movie that offs nearly everyone in the cast, closing with Mansfield drowning herself to take the last of the money.

Mansfield called the film: "The best role of my career." She was four months pregnant with her daughter Mariska Hargitay when she made this. Her voice is dubbed in this by Carolyn De Fonseca, who would one day do Jayne's voice from beyond the grave for The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.

Odd, disjointed but somehow compelling

[facebook-835-889963 · 6/10 · 20 April 2020]

Am I the only one more excited about the presence of Dodie Heath than Jayne Mansfield?

Mediterranean getaway...

[kibishii · 9 June 2002]

"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.

Starts Badly and Ends Worse

[tonstant viewer · 1/10 · 22 August 2006]

The first hour or so of this film seems to be one of those barely competent Euro-thrillers that smells of "deal" and little more.

Evil killers laugh for 20 minutes at a time, a thug in a car tries to kill a pedestrian thug and the editing makes no sense, a voluptuous babe offers to sell out the entire male cast sequentially and all at once, we've all seen it a thousand times and on our own deathbeds we'll undoubtedly regret the time we wasted doing so.

Then the picture goes off the rails, perhaps because of the three or maybe four directors. All pretense of continuity goes out the window, scars disappear and reappear on faces, characters die for silly reasons or no reason at all; basically staging and dialog disintegrate completely. We watch the film go around and around in ever-diminishing circles and finally disappear up its own backside.

You think, "Oh, the poor actors," as they all get that haunted look, like "How did I ever get involved with this mess?" and "Who do I have to sleep with to get OFF of this picture?" and "Boy, will I murder my agent when I get back home!" and "Oh wow, I really need to go; I'll bet it's that schnitzel last night at the hotel."

Jayne Mansfield does some of the best acting in the film, which'll give you some idea of what to expect. When Cameron Mitchell goes berserk and starts ripping up the furniture, he does it with a remarkably rehearsed air, along the lines of "We only have one sofa, so I have to get it right on the first take," and "Does Stuart Whitman have to put up with this stuff in his movies?"

There is no psychological or sociological subtext to this film; it has no stylistic elegance or directorial signature hidden in a overlooked "B"; it is simply a desperate and cynical attempt to make money. The movie fails on every level. You don't even get to see Dubrovnik. Skip it.

Dog eat dog eat dog...

[gnb · 7/10 · 7 May 2006]

After her box office successes at Fox with hits such as The Wayward Bus, The Girl Can't Help it and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, the event that was Jayne Mansfield carved a new, and ultimately more interesting, career for herself in several European independent films.

Dog Eat Dog, released in 1964, was filmed in the former Yugoslavia and features Mansfield as Darlene, one third of a gang of crooks who have availed themselves of $1m in stolen cash. After escaping to a "deserted" island with several other money-mad misfits in tow, the body count starts to rack up and the hunt is on for a killer while everyone else tries to get away with the loot.

Sure, this movie is obviously low budget but it's still a lot of fun. The locations are nice, the dialogue is suitably trashy, it's pretty well directed and plot-wise it's watchable right to the end. And where else can you see one time Fox Amazon Mansfield hareing round a desert island with mad hair and a black eye? Recently re-released on DVD with some tasty extras this movie is well worth a look and proof, if any was needed, that Mansfield's post Fox film period wasn't totally devoid of gems.

Trash On The Mediterranean

[bkoganbing · 2/10 · 3 March 2010]

In one of her last films Jayne Mansfield probably signed on to do this film for the price of a ticket to Europe to film Dog Eat Dog on a nice plush Mediterranean island in Yugoslavia. Other than a tax write off I can't see any other reason for appearing in this trash.

Jayne's the moll of gangster Ivor Salter who has just pulled off a robbery of US currency traded by tourists for European denominations and has further attempted to dump partner Cameron Mitchell. Mitchell gets tossed off a cliff, but he lives and is out for revenge.

They all wind up fleeing the authorities on some resort island where the guests and management of the hotel are all a bit flaky, but not flaky enough to not want a cut of the loot, or all of the loot. Then people start getting very dead.

I'm curious about the reaction to the film, people seem either to think this is great avant garde cinema or like me they think it trash. I can't see any great entertainment value here. Not even color cinematography which is a must in the Mediterranean.

I'm wondering why Werner Peters was dubbed, his thick Teutonic accent is part of his persona. Normally playing Nazis, Peters here is a musician and companion to the crazy lady who runs the hotel. Why he wasn't speaking in his normal accent is beyond me. He speaks a concise English in other and better films.

In fact everybody here has appeared in something way much better than Dog Eat Dog.

"Crackers! I'd rather have fresh panties in Teaneck, New Jersey."

[bensonmum2 · 7/10 · 21 April 2006]

IMDb's short plot synopsis is written better than anything I can come up with – "Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents."

If you're a fan of over-the-top, campy, Euro-heist films, Dog Eat Dog has got it all. Let's see – mix the iconic Jayne Mansfield, genre favorite Cameron Mitchell, $1,000,000 in stolen cash, a mysterious killer, a (supposedly) deserted island, and a jazzy score and you've got Dog Eat Dog. It may not be what some critics and others would call a "good" movie, but if you like this sort of stuff, it's a winner.

These are some of the most eccentric characters I've run across. Jayne Mansfield plays Darlene, the negligee wearing female member of the gang of thieves. She has an annoying habit of beginning each sentence with the expression "Crackers!" I'm not sure why or what it means, but it's a hoot. She's also a complete nymphomaniac. Cameron Mitchell is the real tough guy of the group. He receives a head wound early on and refuses to wipe the blood and dirt off the side of his face for the entire movie – even though the film takes place of a couple of days time. Then there's the crazy old woman who owns the only house on the island. A nuttier old coot I don't think I've seen. You could spend considerable time just trying to figure her out. And that's just for starters. You've also got the hyena laughing third robber, the bald German butler, the hotel manger out for himself, or the hotel manager's virginal sister. It's this bizarre cast of characters each out for themselves that makes Dog Eat Dog so much fun.

Crackers, Jayne is almost a parody of herself in this film.

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 29 June 2009]

This film begins with Jayne Mansfield rolling about in bed with money all over her. This seems to go on and on and on, as the only reason for the scene is to see this starlet in various states of undress. The film doesn't even pretend to be anything other than an exploitation film at the beginning--and it's obvious they only two things going for the film are hidden under Ms. Mansfield's towel.

This is the story, believe it or not, of "Mr. and Mrs. Smithopolous" staying in a resort in the Mediterranean. Of course these are aliases, as it's Mansfield and her boyfriend. While she rolls in the dough, her man is busy laughing like a hyena while he's killing off his partner in crime. It seems that they have just robbed a shipment of old US dollars that are being returned to the States to be burned and Mansfield's beau doesn't want to split it with his partner. Eventually, the three end up on a supposedly deserted island--which turns out to have several people waiting. There, they wait until the coast clears...and one by one, people in this group start dying off mysteriously.

The plot and action is VERY claustrophobic, as they spend almost all the film on this tiny island and this is bad because the actors are left trying to support the weight of the film. And, considering how bad the actors are, this is a chore they simply aren't up to. Cameron Mitchell basically spends the movie threatening and screaming while Ms. Mansfield does a great imitation of a brain-damaged bimbo (inexplicably, she claimed in real life to be a genius--this film will surely erase all doubts as to her intelligence or lack thereof).

A skimpy plot and lousy acting--it's pretty obvious that this is a grade-C project from start to finish. Why some of the reviewers here on IMDb scored this one so high is beyond me. Stupid and dull.

How can a film be majorly depressing and hysterically funny at the same time?

[mark.waltz · 1/10 · 16 March 2022]

"Darling, do me a favor and drop dead", Ivor Salter tells the annoyingly cheerful Jayne Mansfield at one point in this European thriller filmed in Yugoslavia after they begin arguing after their partner in crime Cameron Mitchell is killed, having hidden the loot in the intention of fleecing everyone who felt that they were entitled to a share. The ensemble of this film is directed extremely badly to be so over the top and collectively dreadful that it's hard to believe that they were taking this seriously when making it. Had I not known the truth about the side eye picture from Sophia Loren towards Mansfield (taken years earlier), I'd swear it was at the premiere of this film with Loren thinking indeed what a bowl of alpo this film was.

At times, it seems that the film is trying to parody the types of films that Loren and other European films were making in Europe because it does have that feel to it. In the films that stands, it does have some fantastic location footage, but the dialogue is so god-awful dreadful that it's like a big joke on the European film industry. "Yanis, you can't leave me!" one of the women screams at the dead man with a knife in his heart laying in front of her. Salter is destroying feathered beds as organ music plays in the background, deserts flying everywhere as his blood-stained face shines on the camera.

That's veteran actress Isa Miranda on the organ, looking absolutely demented as the owner of the villa where this gang of loonies hang out. She looks like a crazy monster from a Mario Bava horror film throughout. I'd love to politely Define complement Mansfield on her looks, but she looks absolutely horrible, loaded with over accentuated eye makeup and something on the side of her nose that is very distracting. Then there's Dodie Heath as the frigid hanger-on, reminding me of Estelle Parsons as Blanche in "Bonnie and Clyde", screaming "I'm alive, and I want to be loved by someone alive!" and Werner Peters as the Tor Johnson look-a-like manservant whose acting is indescribeably bad. This is one that has to be seen to be believed, and even then, it seems ridiculously unreal. One of the worst films of the 60's, let alone 1964, let alone of all time.

Jayne Mansfield in wild, unintentionally avant garde film!

[boinnng · 9/10 · 9 August 2004]

I've just seen this! It was oddly compelling. My partner gave up on it in the first half hour, but I just HAD to see it all of the way through! As others have said, it's about three thieves on the run after stealing money that was to be sent back to the USA for destruction. What a strange yet wonderful film. It was obviously made towards the end of Jayne's career, as her star was falling...but she acts as if she was still on the A-List! But it's bottom of the barrel-ness makes it (and her performance) all the more interesting!

The movie starts off slowly, but once the thieves make an open sea break for it (with hostage in tow) and end up on a kooky island estate run by a demented older woman, things really shift gears and it becomes very (unintentionally) avant garde!

In this movie you get a way-past-her-prime Jayne doing her own thing (she truly seems to be in her own world while chaos reigns around her), an older woman with a few screws loose, a mysterious killer offing everyone one by one, Cameron Mitchell who never takes the time to wash off the blood and grime that is all over his face, a balding, monocled butler who looks like he's from a 2nd rate (3rd rate?) touring company of "SUNSET BOULEVARD", and did I mention Jayne? See Jayne dance! See Jayne in a cat fight! See Jayne roll around in her undies on a bed full of money! See Jayne in constant heat! See a hefty Jayne run wild on a strange island in nothing but a feather trimmed negligee, a black eye, and extremely bad hair! Just so strange! WOW!

I got this movie on a cheapy double bill (the mind-numbingly awful "SHE DEMONS" is the second feature) DVD. I sought it out just for "DOG EAT DOG", and I was NOT let down (the DVD was ultra cheap anyway...). I just wish someone out there would RESTORE this movie. It's wild and I think it could develop a cult following! NOT for everyone--but take a chance!

I want to insult this movie

[recluse2 · 2/10 · 15 April 2019]

God, this movie annoyed me. To be insulting: it's stupid, idiotic, dumb, drags, bad acting, unexciting despite the situation, just a pain to sit thru. I made myself sit thru it because I got 30 minutes into it. What's on the positive side? A few decent lines in the script and the European setting. I cannot believe people give it ten stars.

Jayne!

[AppleAsylum · 5 May 2001]

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.

DVD Review "Dog Eat Dog" By Marcus Pan

[marcuspan-00524 · 4/10 · 21 November 2023]

DVD Review "Dog Eat Dog" By Marcus Pan

Cult cinema always has its cheese, and "Dog Eat Dog" is no exception. The fight scenes are hilarious, with the quick-speed throws to show the fall through the window just a little faster...the obvious misses that result in our thespians being flipped over pianos and blondes pulling at each other's hair like rag dolls on parade. It's all quite cheesy. Let's not forget the overacting and brilliant melodrama!

The gist of the tale is the evils of money and how its abundance can mar the lives and souls of even the cutest big breasted blonde and her cohort. 50s/60s sex symbol Jayne Mansfield stars here as a goofy gal, pointing her Madonnaesque teats at whoever might get their hands on the illusive million dollar heist money next. Hiding on a Mediterranean island after the heist of US currency that was supposed to have gone back to the states for destruction, the original trio of heisters - consisting of your pretty boy mastermind, dumb-brained heavyset enforcer and the lucky goil, Mansfield - finds themselves followed by a hotel manager and his innocent sister who catch wind that these three are the thieves walking around with a million dollar stash.

Once on the island it's found that the homeowners have returned so now we add the melodramatic old lady and her goofy eccentric housemate. All seven try to find ways to wheel and deal for a share of the money when bodies start turning up. Bombs, knives, goofy overacted death scenes and paranoid schizophrenia later, we find all seven dead by one means or another further telling us that money, when it's your focal point, will become the proverbial death of you.

As far as cult classic cheese goes, "Dog Eat Dog" is dead on. It's got your sex symbol girl, tough and rugged sex symbol guy, innocent virginal girl for the shy fans and a goofy eccentric flat mate with a conniving mind and more. And it's got a pile of money. And a pretty Mediterranean island to hang out on. And a whole lot of unintentionally funny fights, arguments and pointy boobs! You can't go wrong.

--- Originally published in Legends #158. Minor edits since. De-offensified.

A Jayne Mansfield Giallo!

[melvelvit-1 · 10/10 · 28 May 2007]

While Darlene (Jayne Mansfield) writhes orgasmically on a bed of cash, her lover is pushing Corbett (Cameron Mitchell) over a cliff. All three have just stolen a million dollars bound for the States to be destroyed and a European manhunt has begun because they kill a guard. The manager of the hotel they're staying at and his lover, the hotel proprietress (Isa Miranda), find out and hatch a plan to murder the two and take the money for themselves right under the nose of the police. Darlene and her man soon hide out on a deserted Aegean island that once housed Europe's most famous bordello with the manager and his sister in hot pursuit. But Corbett isn't dead and the island isn't deserted: the deranged brothel owner and her manservant have come home for the old lady to die. The money goes missing, the cast go after it and it's dog-eat-dog as a killer picks them off one by one...

Here's another link between the Film Noir and the Giallo. There's "giallo" written all over it although there's no color and the killings aren't exactly set pieces. The stark B&W photography and crime caper plot give the proceedings a noir "feel" and the denouement is the perfect blend of THE KILLING (1956) and Mario Bava's BAY OF BLOOD (1971). This den-of-thieves whodunit contains many future staples of the giallo genre: sunglasses, leather gloves, strange sibling relationships, nymphomania, greed and death by various gruesome means including defenestration, garrote, gun, knife, fire, water and painting. DOG EAT DOG also pays tribute to at least two dark films of the Golden Age: the mad madame and her bald manservant living in the abandoned villa hark back to SUNSET BLVD and one murder mirrors THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. This film is more than highly recommended; it's important in the evolution of the "Golden Age Of The Giallo" and there's more than enough noir to satisfy those desiring the dark. The bitterly cynical world-view outdoes even Monogram's DECOY in its ending and, like that film, there isn't one incorruptible character in the whole motley crew. The lusty Mansfield spends much of the time in various states of undress while crying out for clean panties, exclaiming "Crackers!" a lot, and spouting wisdom like "I've got a pash for the cash." There's even a knock-down, drag-out cat-fight between Jayne and the hotel manager's sister (Dody Heath). International actress Isa Miranda had a small but pivotal part in Mario Bava's masterpiece: BAY OF BLOOD and DOG EAT DOG was long rumored to have been directed by schlockmeister Albert Zugsmith but this is incorrect. The project was begun by Zugsmith & Co. two years earlier but was abandoned before filming began; it was later resumed by a German/European conglomerate. Based on the novel by Robert Bloomfield.

See it ASAP!

Strange fruit, bring out for party time

[oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx · 8/10 · 24 May 2009]

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.

Crackers! What Bizarre Fun...

[shark-43 · 8/10 · 24 November 2007]

This 1960's oddity is a rare blend of pulp noir dialogue at it's worst, crisp B&W cinematography, snappy jazz score, Jayne Mansfield's round, doughy sex cat routine, Cameron Mitchell sweating and slugging people and every heist gone wrong cliché in the book (plus a little Agatha Christie thrown in for a good measure.) My friends and I were howling at the verbal "jousting" throughout the film and it is just loaded with one strange character after another. If you are expecting a well made taut heist film, rent Kubrick's The Killing - but for a fun, cheesy sixties crime crap in a blender - then this one is a hoot. Released in England with the much more subdued title When Strangers Meet, they slapped the Dog Eat Dog title on it in America and Mansfield died tragically in the now legendarily gruesome car accident. In fact Maynsfield is four months pregnant with future actress Law & Order:SVU's Mariska Haggerty (sp?) while filming this crime romp. There are cat fights, pistol whipping, Yugoslovian bartenders endlessly cleaning glasses, washed up madams, bald pimps and Cameron Mitchell bleeds more than any male lead in history (and Tim Roth was in an ENSEMBLE when he did all his marvelous bleeding in Resorvoir Dogs). Jayne Mansfield says a lot of unintentionally bad dialogue but her exclamation of "Crackers!" takes the cake...or the crackers...whatever.

Underrated Sixties Noir

[rcoates-661-22249 · 10/10 · 23 April 2010]

All of the critical scorn directed at Dog Eat Dog is rather perplexing, since it's a tense, starkly photographed, bleak and sleazy shot of cool 60s crime melodrama.

Dog Eat Dog is similar in its strange look and feel to Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (there's even a bald creep who resembles Donald Pleasence), but with a more straightforward hard boiled edge and noirish dialogue, with Cameron Mitchell cynically dubbing Jayne Mansfield's breasts her "double indemnity".

Shot in beautiful locations and full of interesting, unusual faces, this is a crazy winner that ought to please fans of Mitchell, Mansfield, or offbeat genre films and black comedies generally. Mitchell even gets to go nuts and tear apart a whorehouse, yelling incoherently about money and gasoline. Really, what could be better?

Jayne's Last Good Film ?

[Dweezilaz · 10/10 · 27 January 2012]

This film had all the elements of a film gone wrong:an international cast,standard heist plot,Euro pop/jazz soundtrack,ham handed action and Jayne Mansfield. Could any film project have been more predestined to be awful?

I was expecting so much worse. Imagine the surprise of discovering how much fun this movie was with all of it's sorry bits working together in some sort of obtuse harmony.

The dialog is over the top outrageous. Check these three prizes just from the trailer:

"Crackers, it's just mad money"....

"You are rude dirty and ugly. We do not cater to rude,dirty,ugly men. Get out."

Or better yet: Madame Benoit:"Where did you get this stuff? It's dishwater." Bartender: "It's the prunes, Madame.Since Socialism they don't let the peasants crush them with their feet any more. It impairs the flavor." Madame Benoit: "It's still dishwater."

And those are just a few of a beginning to end feast of howlers. How could one not love dialog like this ? It's so absurd it's almost genius.

To think Arthur Miller worked so hard on "The Misfits".I will have to watch the film again just to catch all the gems.

And yet: Jayne Mansfield was never again more natural, seeming to have dispensed with the "Divoon" Marilyn parody and almost playing it straight.

It could be the dubbing that made her seem more part of an ensemble rather than a running gag. Someone else dubbed her voice.It works and the dubbing is very well done for a 60s Euro film, everything is in harmony.

It's an awful film on so many levels, but consistently awful from plot to soundtrack, to dialog. It's a package deal that works on all those levels because of it's awfulness. It's what makes "Dog Eat Dog" fun.

The cast is interesting and watchable, the heavy breathing dialog worthy of John Waters, the euro artiness of it gives it an air of sophistication, even legitimacy that was probably never intended.

An accident of a film: accidentally entertaining. One of those "so bad it's good" films. Perfect for a double bill with Elizabeth Taylor's "The Driver's Seat".

Such a surprise to find it so entertaining as I was definitely expecting to feel depressed after watching Jayne Mansfield in it,as I did with "Las Vegas Hillbillies", "The Fat Spy" and "Single Room Furnished".

Maybe this one was Jayne's last great film. Like Marilyn's "The Misfits".

Would definitely watch it again.

Not a waste of time at all. Definitely worth seeing.

Social drama and great performance!

[Artemis-9 · 8/10 · 17 February 2002]

It is a pity that with badly edited bootleg copies, you no longer can enjoy to the full with the witty social criticism, and the psychological analysis of the characters as the original movie was intended to. Even a poor version (I got mine from the WWW as "Dog Eat Dog") you should not miss Jayne's great performance. She was not under the best directors, the richest producers, with the best casts Hollywood could afford - but she was a major personality, and she shows it everywhere: namely here, in this little, wonderful film - dark, so dark, as Jayne's life was going to be. Notable also for Jayne's only fight scene on a boat, and on the seashore, trying to escape a no-escape island.