Too Hot to Handle (U.S. title: Playgirl After Dark) is a 1960 British neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Terence Young and starring Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn and Carl Boehm.

In the background are a sadistic client, an underage chorus girl, a wisecracking siren who is not averse to rough trade, a visiting journalist and a dancer who guards her past.

"[3] Mansfield's risqué see-through clothing and the film's racy musical numbers caused some controversy that delayed the American release until January 1961, and the sexiest frames were displayed in Playboy magazine.

The German color version is a mix of both takes, along with additional censor cuts, including the deletion of most of Jayne's song "You Were Made For Me" (a parody of Marilyn Monroe).

[5] Filming was temporarily halted at the order of Actors' Equity when £100,000 of the budget failed to materialize, partly because of the illness of Sydney Box, who was slated to produce.

The other occurs when Lilliane is confirmed as a cut above the other strippers by the discovery that in her spare time she reads Havelock Ellis, Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud.

"[6] Variety wrote: "Jayne Mansfield made a 6,000 mile journey to make this British meller, but the trip hardly seems worth it.

It will need all her marquee value to sell this dubious and seamy piece of entertainment which is set among the flashy backgrounds of Soho's striptease joints.