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Who Killed Teddy Bear [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - United Kingdom ]

Director: Joseph Cates
Studio: Network
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 120,193

Format: Import, PAL
Language: English (Unknown)
Region: 0
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 87 Minutes

ASIN: B0025FVWOQ

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Product Description
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 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 be

Customer Reviews:
4 out of 5 stars

At Long Last December 1, 2009
V. Risoli (Highlands, NJ, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I have such a high regard for this movie, I can not give it a five-star rating. I take off a point for "effort." Startling? And effective. This Region 0 Great Britain DVD presents the first time this movie has been issued (from Network) in a mainstream version but also the first time it was presented to Britain due to censorship there in the sixties when the film was initially released by a new little studio, Magna in 1965. I thought it my duty to check this out. A lot of the companies that featured this film in their catalog have been vying for the inclusion from what must have been an edited for television version that cropped up and did not include the now infamous "pool scene." Research shows the Network version was released in January 2009 and after that versions with the pool scene became readily available and, it was a close call, but this DVD too features the body-building/pool scene that fans today want to see of Sal Mineo who like everyone in the cast (Juliet Prowse, Elaine Stritch, Jan Murray) went into an entertaining foray into the underbelly that Sal was working his way back from/into a comeback before his virtually senseless murder. This film has everything to survive in cult status, and now what might be furthermore impossible, is the task to produce a restored version. The writing and direction would today lead places, but this film was ahead of its time. Of several clips posted on youtube, this has everything except the images are not quite as clear in the title sequence of Lawrence and Nora together in his dreams that I believe it should have, but the entirety of the credits themselves are there which is a vast improvement over some versions that have been issued. The film was still "ahead of its time" in 1996 when it was first re-issued on the big screen in cities like San Francisco. That Sal, found unquestionably to be gay during the events surrounding his murder investigation, could have put gay icons on the map while he was alive but fate seems to have him and the film remain in the troubled zone of James Dean and other rebels, on the verge of something new and exciting, but yet amiss.

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