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Who Killed Teddy Bear?
- Director: Joseph Cates
- Writer: Arnold Drake
- Producer: Everett Rosenthal
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A busboy at a disco has sexual problems related to events in his childhood. He becomes obsessed with a disc jockey at the club, leading to obscene phone calls, voyeurism, trips to the porn shop and adult movie palace, and more! A police detective is similarly obsessed with sexual materials, leading him to become personally involved in the case.
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The(ir) Blurb...
In a far cry from his signature role as the doe-eyed, crushed-out Plato in Rebel Without a Cause, Sal Mineo is seen to his advantage in Who Killed Teddy Bear? as a brawny busboy working at a New York discotheque. He spends his downtime as a peeping tom with a penchant for making obscene phone calls to his co-worker Norah (Juliet Prowse), who also finds admirers in the club’s tough-talking lesbian manager (Elaine Stritch) and a cop dedicated to the assiduous study of sexual deviancy (Jan Murray). Set amid the smut shops, peep shows, and porno theaters of old Times Square, Joseph Cates’s cult classic anticipates Scorsese’s Taxi Driver with its wonderfully seedy tale of obsessive desire and urban alienation.
Cast & Characters
Sal Mineo as Lawrence Sherman;
Juliet Prowse as Norah Dain;
Jan Murray as Lt. Dave Madden;
Elaine Stritch as Marian Freeman;
Margot Bennett as Edie Sherman;
Daniel J. Travanti as Carlo;
Diane Moore as Pam Madden;
Frank Campanella; Bruce Glover;
Tom Aldredge as Adler