Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965)

I’ve never seen anyone talk about this film, which is why it felt like such an incredible discovery. It’s lurid, sleazy, trashy, and sordid, in the best possible way. There’s no nudity, due to the restrictions of the Hays Code, but it still dives into taboo subjects like…

noen

Interesting find. I had no knowledge of this film and found it because I read that the film had a ton of footage of 42nd St. and Times Square including detailed shots of grindhouse theaters. And it does! Sal Mineo enters a theater playing Hollywood's World of Flesh. But…

Sean Baker

This really is tough teddy bear to wrestle. On one hand it's easily to dismiss this material as a made for "Television" like film that weakly codes it's material for a light rating and doesn't have the cohenoes to show it but equally you have to realize the time and trying…

pirateneckbeard

It’s a sick, sick, sick world! Manages to bridge the gap between Hitchcockian noir and the sewage that was just starting to flood out of the gutters on 42nd St. in a really indelible way. This would work even better paired with Doris Wishman’s Bad Girls Go to Hell, which…

Liz

Hard to tell whether this is conservative pearl clutching or mocking conservative pearl clutching, but either way the gawking shots of 1965 pornography (gosh, how quaint magazines like "Rubber" and "Teenage Nudists" seem now) and the vaseline lens lingering on Sal Mineo's…

laird

exists somewhere in a tawdry liminal space between 60s sexploitation (ala Wishman and Friedman) and something more explicitly genre leaning like Madigan, melding a gruff procedural with the Times Square perversions of its era -- massively ahead of its time, predicting films…

Justin LaLiberty

What the hell is this insane movie and how has it gone under my radar till now?  Freaky, surreal, sexy and very strange…a movie unlike anything Ive really seen before or will again. And…SO much 60’s dancing it’s kinda hilarious.  It’s like a fever dream from someone who’s…

Joe Lynch

One of the true delightful aberrations of film history: what if a Michael Findlay movie had stars and a budget? Looks spectacular on the new 4K release from Vinegar Syndrome's "Cinematographe" line. The bright lights and nudist magazines of the Times Square scenes really…

Will Sloan

Sal Mineo is very nearly a bit too hot here to pull this off. 35mm print of the 4K restoration seen at Music Box Theatre

Robert Daniels