A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.
- Oscar
- (as John Shaner)
- Mrs. Swickert
- (as Myrtle Damerel)
- Lou Raby
- (as Burt Convy)
- Art Collector
- (as Bruno Ve Soto)
- Sylvia
- (as Lynne Storey)
- Coffee-House patron
- (uncredited)
- Singer-Guitarist
- (uncredited)
- Art Exhibit Patron
- (uncredited)
- Beatnik Saxophonist
- (uncredited)
- Art Exhibit Patron
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaThe sets for this film would be re-used for Roger Corman's next production The Little Shop of Horrors (1960). They were previously used for The Diary of a High School Bride (1959).
- GoofsWalter accidentally kills a cat in a wall with a knife, but when he takes it out of the wall, it is stiff, as if it has been dead at least an hour.
- Quotes
- [first lines]
- Maxwell H. Brock: I will talk to you of Art, for there is nothing else to talk about, for there is nothing else. Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on the omnibus of Art. Burn gas buggies, and whip your sour cream of circumstance and hope, and go ahead and sleep your bloody heads off! Creation is; all else is not. What is not creation, is graham cracker; let it all crumble to feed the creator. The Artist is; all others are not. A canvas is a canvas, or a painting. A rock is a rock, or a statue. A sound is a sound, or is music. A preacher is a preacher, or an Artist. Where are John, Joe, Jake, Jim, jerk? Dead, dead, dead. They were not born before they were born; they were not born. Where are Leonardo, Rembrandt, Ludwig? Alive! Alive! Alive! They were born! Bring on the multitude, the multitude of fishes: feed them to the fishes for liver oil to nourish the Artist, stretch their skin upon an easel to give him canvas, crush their bones into a paste that he might mold them. Let them die, and by their miserable deaths become the clay within his hands, that he might form an ashtray or an ark. For all that is comes through the eye of the Artist. The rest are blind fish, swimming in the cave of aloneness. Swim on, you maudlin, muddling, maddened fools, and dream that one bright and sunny night, some Artist will bait a hook and let you bite upon it! Bite hard - and die! In his stomach you are very close to immortality.
- Alternate versionsThe West German dubbed version produced by Schongerfilm, "Das Vermächtnis des Professor Bondi" (The Legacy of Professor Bondi), features a unique 9-minute long prologue. Ostensibly created to pad out the film's runtime to make it more suitable for playing in German theaters, it turns the film into a sequel to House of Wax (1953), which was released there as "Das Kabinett des Professor Bondi" (The Cabinet of Professor Bondi). The sequence follows Professor Henry Bondi (ie. Professor Henry Jarrod, the character originally played by Vincent Price), who survived his death in the earlier film, but now feels the ravages of time encroaching upon him and his Marie Antoinette wax figure. As a storm brews outside his dilapidated castle, he reluctantly decides that his last living relative, Walter Bondi (ie. Walter Paisley), must continue his work. Neither the crew who produced this prologue, nor the actor who plays Professor Bondi, have been identified.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: A Bucket of Blood (2016)
- SoundtracksThe Ballad of Tim Evans
("Go Down, You Murderer")
Music & Lyrics by Ewan MacColl
Performed by Alex Hassilev
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- El falso escultor
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- $50,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 6m(66 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1


































