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  • DVD Release Date: 08/08/2006
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Disc #1 -- The Girl Can't Help It
1. A Story of Music/Main Titles [3:17]
2. 942 Park Avenue [3:05]
3. Autobiographies [6:22]
4. Miss Jerri Jordan [4:00]
5. She's Domestic [5:11]
6. Ready Teddy [1:29]
7. Six Months to Stardom [2:51]
8. Cool It Baby [1:20]
9. Cinnamon Sinner [1:57]
10. Spread the Word [2:39]
11. Julie London [1:42]
12. Cry Me a River [3:35]
13. More Than Just a Girl [6:35]
14. There's No Getting Out of the Deal [5:49]
15. Rehearsals [4:32]
16. Breaking the News to Murdock [2:43]
17. 20 Flight Rock [1:40]
18. Fats' Demands [2:47]
19. Rock Around the Rock Pile [1:36]
20. Thanksgiving Day [4:01]
21. Spying [2:09]
22. Mousie's Good Deed [2:44]
23. Rockin' Is Our Business [1:49]
24. Wheeler Music Enterprises [1:56]
25. Putting Murdock in His Place [4:07]
26. The Jukebox War [3:01]
27. Blue Monday [1:40]
28. The Real Thing/You'll Never Never Know [4:01]
29. Every Time [2:48]
30. Saving Murdock (Twice) [3:43]
31. That's the Story [1:21]
32. Fats' Last Word/End Titles [:29]
Disc #2 -- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1. Tony's Introduction [4:28]
2. LSJRP&C [1:30]
3. Bad News [4:33]
4. Seclusion [2:44]
5. Femme Fatale [1:19]
6. Fan Club President [2:32]
7. Those Kissable Lips [4:24]
8. Finding Rita [4:13]
9. Influential Ad Man [5:03]
10. Lover Doll [3:06]
11. Fame [7:00]
12. Business Arrangement [3:10]
13. Potent Kisses [1:53]
14. Trying to Forget [4:40]
15. Working Out [3:16]
16. Rabid Fans [3:46]
17. Practice Makes Perfect [4:39]
18. Too Much Exercise [2:52]
19. Big Screen, Clear Picture [2:07]
20. What Is Success? [6:06]
21. Just Like Rita [2:43]
22. You Got It Made [3:26]
23. Mr. Successful [2:09]
24. Parental Approval [2:10]
25. Making It [2:50]
26. Average Joe [2:57]
27. No Commercials [1:44]
28. Being Happy [1:08]
Disc #3 -- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
1. Main Titles [1:47]
2. Looking for Mr. Jonathan [1:36]
3. Driving Into the Future [2:15]
4. Where Guns Sell [3:25]
5. Ignorant Diplomacy [7:42]
6. A Legend in Short Time [4:56]
7. Strolling Down the Lane With Bill [2:29]
8. Three Days a Week [5:41]
9. If the San Francisco Hills Could Only Talk [2:12]
10. Taking Care of Keeno [5:40]
11. Doggone That Derringer [7:17]
12. Guarding Her Garter [4:39]
13. Hitting Their Marks [4:00]
14. In the Valley of Love (Reprise) [4:16]
15. All Kinds of Guns [10:19]
16. Son of a Chief [6:39]
17. The Great Reward [2:39]
18. Rough Trade [9:11]
19. Fracas in Fractured Jaw [9:57]
20. In-laws, Outlaws and Wedding Bells [6:17]

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Editorial Reviews

The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture (modern 1950s culture, that is) in The Girl Can't Help It. Much of the film is dominated by Edmond O'Brien as mob boss Murdock, who while serving a term in federal prison becomes a singing sensation with his hit tune "Rock Around the Rock Pile." Once he's sprung, Murdock hires impoverished agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell), not to promote his own career, but to turn his curvaceous lady friend Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield) into a star. Alas, Jerri has no singing or acting talent whatsoever, a fact that she's eager and willing to admit. A domestic type at heart, all Jerri really wants out of life is to marry Murdock, so that she can clean his house, cook his meals and raise his children. When Murdock refuses to grant her wishes, Jerri falls in love with Tom instead.

Every so often, director Tashlin takes time out from the plot to poke fun at such technical marvels as CinemaScope and Technicolor, and to lampoon the American male's fixation on female bosoms and bottoms (at one point, Jayne Mansfield leans towards the camera, her cleavage exposed as far as the censors will allow, and plaintively asks Tom Ewell if he believes that she's equipped for motherhood). While much of the humor in the film is dated, The Girl Can't Help It is an invaluable record of the pop-music scene of the 1950s, featuring such guest artists as Julie London (playing Tom Ewell's dream girl), Ray Anthony, Fats Domino, The Platters, Little Richard and his Band, Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps, the Treniers, Eddie Fontaine, Abbey Lincoln and Eddie Cochran. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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