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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Shot on location in Manhattan during the mid-'60s, Who Killed Teddy Bear? is a startling piece of dramatic filmmaking. Juliet Prowse portrays Nora, a deejay and hostess at a sleazy midtown discothèque who starts to receive obscene phone calls. Nora dismisses them, until she crosses paths with Bill Madden (Jan Murray), a grim, obsessive police lieutenant specializing in sex crimes (his obsession, as he later reveals, derives from the fact that his own wife was assaulted and murdered while out alone one night); he manages both to offend and frighten Nora with his depth of knowledge and suspicions about the kinds of people who commit those crimes. They develop a close but wary relationship even as the caller, whoever he is, proves to know not only a great deal about her personal life, but also about events transpiring right inside her apartment. She goes about her life as best she can, attending auditions and making the rounds of theaters, and socializing with her co-workers at the club, including the bus boy, Larry (Sal Mineo), who seems lonely and has a very sweet younger sister who is mildly retarded. She looks to her club manager (Elaine Stritch) for help, but then rejects her when she suspects that the older woman is attracted to her -- and then Stritch is killed by the stalker, by mistake, outside Nora's building when she is seen wearing the girl's coat. Nora tries to relax and looks to Larry for friendship, only to discover that he is the stalker. Madden also makes the connection, and figures out how he was observing her inside her apartment, but he's too late to save Nora from being assaulted. Larry ends up on the run from the police, who are in hot pursuit as he flees through Manhattan's streets. ...Who Killed Teddy Bear
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This movie is one of those movies that was once "banned in the UK" by our most sesible censors but suddenly after 40 years it's been released on dvd here with a 15cert, so I guess the British public is at last deemed fit to view. Story concerns Juliet Prowse looking stunning as a nightclub hostess in New York who is being stalked by an obsessive-Sal Mineo is a weirdo who also looks stunning and Elaine Strich runs the nightclub and even she looks pretty good! The movie is worth viewing just for those "hip" 60s dance moves on the dancefloor-"far out man!"
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a quite strange movie - very very dated by the acting, fashion style and dialogue, but it holds your attention. However, there is a fantastic dance scene with Juliet Prowse and Sal Mineo in which the background music is just fabulous. I have tried hunting on every possible internet site and cannot find who sings the song or the name of the song (it is NOT the title song "Who Killed Teddy Bear". I suspect the name of the song could be Ït Should Have Been Me as that is repeated a lot in the song. Does anyone know who sings it????
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A great performance by the late greats Sal Mineo and Juliet Prowse. Not sure why it was banned by the UK censors. Sexual threads all throughout this film...with a little psychosis!
I think the dance scene with Juliet Prowse is incredibly seductive.
I think the dance scene with Juliet Prowse is incredibly seductive.
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An enjoyable surprise
I kept putting off buying this film because of the price. However I eventually found it discounted and bought it recently. Read more
Published 2 months ago by RL
Sal forever, if clad at all, in tight white jeans!
Homoerotic indeed! After his unforgettable Plato in "Rebel Without a Cause", followed by a profitable series of roles in various mainstream Hollywood goodies, Sal Mineo's career... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Momix
Disturbing Movie Great Acting
Great Movie I saw this movie when I was a child and it had a lasting impression on me so much that I have wanted to see it for close to 40 years. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Henry B. Hart
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