According to a recent biography of Sal Mineo he was going through a lot of professional and personal angst at the time he was making Who Killed Teddy Bear. Professional because he was no longer the teen idol of the Fifties and roles were getting scarce. He was in the early Sixties discovering the fact he was indeed gay. Maybe the role of the sexually confused busboy might do something or maybe it was the best he could get.
Whatever it was Teddy Bear might have been the low point of his career and a few others in the cast. No one comes out of this with any glory.
Juliet Prowse is a disc jockey at a disco and of course she takes her turn on the floor as well. She's picked up a stalker and when she turns to the police for help she gets a cop with issues.
That would be Jan Murray, late of the borscht belt and of the television game show Treasure Hunt which I first remember seeing him in. His wife was brutally killed in a sex crime homicide and he now quite obsesses on the subject of sexual predators. He's also feeling a little lustful towards Juliet.
And he's not the only one. The owner of disco Elaine Stritch would like to make a little time with her. Normally I might applaud the fact that lesbianism even got a hint on the screen, but in such a crass and a exploitive film as Who Killed Teddy Bear.
It's one weird film, shot totally on location in New York with what looks like someone's Bell&Howell home movie camera. Production values are near zero.
Skip this trash by.
Whatever it was Teddy Bear might have been the low point of his career and a few others in the cast. No one comes out of this with any glory.
Juliet Prowse is a disc jockey at a disco and of course she takes her turn on the floor as well. She's picked up a stalker and when she turns to the police for help she gets a cop with issues.
That would be Jan Murray, late of the borscht belt and of the television game show Treasure Hunt which I first remember seeing him in. His wife was brutally killed in a sex crime homicide and he now quite obsesses on the subject of sexual predators. He's also feeling a little lustful towards Juliet.
And he's not the only one. The owner of disco Elaine Stritch would like to make a little time with her. Normally I might applaud the fact that lesbianism even got a hint on the screen, but in such a crass and a exploitive film as Who Killed Teddy Bear.
It's one weird film, shot totally on location in New York with what looks like someone's Bell&Howell home movie camera. Production values are near zero.
Skip this trash by.