Who Killed Teddy Bear

1965

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 67% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1457 1.5K

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Plot summary

A grim police detective embarks on a one-man crusade to track down a depraved sex maniac when a nightclub deejay receives a disturbing series of obscene phone calls. Finding himself getting far too close to the victim for comfort, the hard-boiled cop must track down the unbalanced pervert before he can carry out his sick threats.

Director

Joseph Cates Photo
Joseph Cates

Top cast

Elaine Stritch Photo
Elaine Stritch as Marian Freeman
Bruce Glover Photo
Bruce Glover as Frank
Sal Mineo Photo
Sal Mineo as Lawrence Sherman
Daniel J. Travanti Photo
Daniel J. Travanti as Carlo
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
785.93 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 1
1.4 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by olddiscs 8 / 10

This is an important Movie !!

I couldn't believe how this unrecognized unheralded film of the mid 1960s captured the sleaziness & the downfall of NYC during that time The photography is amazing.. the score capturers the early disco era... Sal Mineo is unbelievably sensuous, erotic, neurotic, as is Elaine Stritch who plays the Lesbian, Marian wonderful performances.. Juliet Prowse is good in this role..Plot is a bit confusing.. and why did they cast Jan Murray (great TV comic game show host of that era) in this role? Ill never know.... But as I stated before, this film captures the sleazy, unclean, dark, cold snowy sado masochistic, days of NYC in the mid 1960s when that city was on the decline.. Broadway might have been booming, Babs was on B'WAY live in Funny Girl, The Merm was still around. ETC .but the side streets, the crime, the sex shops were running abound..this film captures it all..worth seeing and or buying if it becomes .. available, Bravo ,Sal Mineo. Elaine Stritch, and the director...
Reviewed by christopher-underwood 7 / 10

Scorsese must have seen this

Uneven, not very well paced and with some poor elements, this low budget piece of sleaze is still a good example of what can be done with a good idea, some decent actors and some balls. Great location shooting around Times Square/42nd Street clashes somewhat with some very flat interior sequences but all the electrifying disco scenes are excellent. Prowse really can dance and if Sal Mineo thinks he's auditioning all over again for Rebel Without A Cause, who can blame him with that physique. Lots of tasteless matters are gleefully paraded before us and even within the movie the lieutenant takes his dirty phone call research home never minding that his daughter is listening in. As others have mentioned, Scorsese must have seen this and in any event this would make a great double bill with Taxi Driver, also one would have to say that this is more sleazy and less glamorised than the more well known film. On a final note, how times change; completely rejected by the UK censors in 1965 is now released with 15 certificate.
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