Das Vermächtnis des Professor Bondi

Originaltitel: A Bucket of Blood

1959
18
1 Std. 6 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,7/10

8382

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Das Vermächtnis des Professor Bondi (1959)

A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.

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Comedy Crime Horror

Ein schwachsinniger Hilfskellner wird als Künstler für eine mit Gips überzogene tote Katze gefeiert, die fälschlicherweise für eine geschickte Statuette gehalten wird.Ein schwachsinniger Hilfskellner wird als Künstler für eine mit Gips überzogene tote Katze gefeiert, die fälschlicherweise für eine geschickte Statuette gehalten wird.Ein schwachsinniger Hilfskellner wird als Künstler für eine mit Gips überzogene tote Katze gefeiert, die fälschlicherweise für eine geschickte Statuette gehalten wird.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,7/10

8382

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Oscar
(as John Shaner)

Judy Bamber

Alice

Myrtle Vail

Mrs. Swickert
(as Myrtle Damerel)

Bert Convy

Lou Raby
(as Burt Convy)

Jhean Burton

Naolia

Bruno VeSota

Art Collector
(as Bruno Ve Soto)

Lynn Storey

Sylvia
(as Lynne Storey)

Tom Daly

Coffee-House patron
(Nicht genannt)

Alex Hassilev

Singer-Guitarist
(Nicht genannt)

George Hoagland

Art Exhibit Patron
(Nicht genannt)

Paul Horn

Beatnik Saxophonist
(Nicht genannt)

Kenner G. Kemp

Art Exhibit Patron
(Nicht genannt)

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At the time of its original release there was a promotion in the newspaper's movie section advertisements that made the offer, "If You Bring In A Bucket Of Blood To Your Local Theater's Management (Or Ticket Booth), You Will Be Given One Free Admission."

Patzer
Walter 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.

Zitate
[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 crackers; 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 with 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.

Alternative Versionen
The 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 Das Kabinett des Professor Bondi (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.

Verbindungen
Edited into FrightMare Theater: A Bucket of Blood (2016)

Soundtracks
The Ballad of Tim Evans
("Go Down, You Murderer")
Music & Lyrics by Ewan MacColl
Performed by Alex Hassilev

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Corman's first black comedy

In Roger Corman's autobiography, he credits himself to creating the sub-genre "black comedy". His version of "black comedy" featured gruesome elements, that were sometimes played for laughs. With BUCKET OF BLOOD and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, he furthered this along, and although I'm not sure if he did indeed invent the "black comedy", he sure had a good run with it.

BUCKET OF BLOOD is near-perfect. Which is saying a lot when you think of some of Corman's films. BUCKET OF BLOOD stars Dick Miller in his only starring performance. He plays a struggling busboy/artist, whose only real desire in life is to impress the local beatnik girl (the talented Barboura Morris). Miller works at the same coffee house that Morris frequents. The place, run by Anthony Carbone, features poetry and art. There are also pretentious beatniks, drug dealers, and undercover detectives.

I don't want to give much else away, aside from that the film itself has a life of its own. The energy is high, the camera and editing work are effectively polished, and the dialogue is uniformly crisp. Corman's direction is fluid. Next to LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and maybe a few of his Poe films, BUCKET OF BLOOD is his best film.

Dick Miller, has never received such a juicy part to play as this. He handles the jokes well, and his interplay with Carbone, and especially Ed Nelson, is great.

The sets are cheap, the conclusion is rushed, but BUCKET OF BLOOD made me giggle, and unlike some horror films, it is supposed to.