Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Joseph Cates

Writers:

Arnold Drake (screenplay)
Arnold Drake (story)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Why with everybody else - why with every slob ... and not with me?

Plot:

A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club...

Plot Keywords:

Busboy | Police | Detective | Disco | Voyeurism

Cast

Sal Mineo	...	Lawrence Sherman
Juliet Prowse	...	Norah Dain
Jan Murray	...	Lt. Dave Madden
Elaine Stritch	...	Marian Freeman
Margot Bennett	...	Edie Sherman
Daniel J. Travanti	...	Carlo (as Dan Travanty)
Diane Moore	...	Pam Madden
Frank Campanella
Bruce Glover
Tom Aldredge	...	Adler
Rex Everhart	...	Rude Customer
Alex Fisher
Stanley Beck
Casey Townsend	...	Ms. Nielsen

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Carlo stabs the rude customer outside the discotheque, he writes in his police statement that the man "made a funny noise." Carlo is completely deaf.

Movie Connections:

References Surftide 77 (1962)

First-rate trash!

"Who Killed Teddy Bear" is irresistible trash, an utterly sleazy film that wallows in B-movie murk without apology. The performances are fine (with the camera leering at the often half-dressed Mineo and Prowse), the script is the stuff of now-extinct 42nd Street grindhouses, and the cinematography seems right out of an early '60s voyeuristic fantasy. This one is guaranteed to touch a salacious chord in anyone with the nerve to sit through.