Why with everybody else - why with every slob ... and not with me?
A grim police detective embarks on a one-man crusade to track down a depraved sex maniac when a nightclub deejay receives a disturbing series of obscene phone calls. Finding himself getting far too close to the victim for comfort, the hard-boiled cop must track down the unbalanced pervert before he can carry out his sick threats.
- 6.2
- 1965
- Released
- 1h 34m
Sal Mineo
Lawrence Sherman
Juliet Prowse
Norah Dain
Jan Murray
Lt. Dave Madden
Elaine Stritch
Marian Freeman
Margot Bennett
Edie Sherman
Daniel J. Travanti
CarloDiana Moore
Pam Madden
Frank Campanella
Police Captain
Bruce Glover
Frank
Tom Aldredge
Adler
Rex Everhart
Rude CustomerAlex Fisher
Stanley Beck
K.C. Townsend
Ms. Nielsen (as Casey Townsend)
Released
en
- #new york city
- #rape
- #sexual obsession
- #disc jockey
- #fetish
- #times square
- #perversion
- #busboy
- #police detective
- #peeping tom
- #painful memories
- #dance club
- #discotheque
- #voyeurism
- #pornography addiction
- #telephone terror
- #1960s
- #woman in peril
- #revenge murderer
- #nightclub hostess
- #child sexual abuse
- #revenge fantasies
- #lesbian friend
- #criminal psychologist
- #trauma & memory
Reviews
There's something quite untypically erotic about the opening scenes of this film as the scantily clad "Larry" (Sal Mineo) telephones a woman and talks suggestively to her. Though not explicit by current standards, this whole film take quite an honest approach to the issues faced by "Norah" (Juliet Prowse) as she becomes more and more frustrated by this stranger who becomes more daring. She reports
A very bold movie for 1965 that has today become a cult classic. Like a lot of these social films they are dated, but to me that is part of what makes them often times great. If I watch a film made in 1965, I want it to reflect the time it was made, not today. "Who Killed Teddy Bear" was one of the first U.S. films to be at the head of the new, changing cinema values of the 1960's. The subject