An unjustly overlooked milestone of American indie noir cinema, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR still exudes modernity after more than forty years from its debut. A cop (Jan Murray) is trying to solve the case of a serial killer, while investigating he gets close and personal with a night club hostess (Norah Dein), who is receiving disturbing and obsessive phone calls. Set in the New York underbelly of the pre ‘zero tolerance’ era, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR features an astonishing performance by Sal Mineo as a deviant and obscure busboy. Banned from British cinemas for its perturbing content, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR has lost none of its power to shock, more than 40 years after it was made.
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