A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1959
Running Times: 66 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Alta Vista Productions
Producer: Roger Corman
Production Manager: Jack Bohrer

SCRIPT
Script: Charles B. Griffith

DIRECTION
Director: Roger Corman
Assistant Director: Paul Rapp

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jacques R. Marquette

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Anthony Carras

MUSIC
Music: Fred Katz
Saxophone Solo: Paul Horn
Music Editor: Jerry Irvin

SOUND
Sound: Wally Nogle
Sound Editor: Leonard Corso

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Bob Mark
Wardrobe: Marge Corso

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Dan Haller
Property Master: Dick Rubin

LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

CAST
Dick Miller (Walter Paisley)
Barboura Morris (Carla)
Antony Carbone (Leonard)
Julian Burton (Maxwell H. Brock)
Ed Nelson (Art Lacroix)
John Brinkley (Will)
John Herman Shaner (Oscar)
Judy Bamber (Alice)
Burt Convy (Lou Raby)
Jhean Burton (Naolia)
Bruno VeSota (art collector)
Paul Horn (beatnik saxophonist)
Lynne Storey (Sylvia)
Myrtle Damerel (real name: Myrtle Vail) (Mrs Surchart)

PLOT SUMMARY

Café busboy Walter Paisley aspires to the lifestyle of the artistic beats that frequent his workplace but lacks the talent or confidence. Then he accidentally kills his landlady's cat, covers it plaster to hide the evidence and has the "work" acclaimed as the product of a brilliant new sculptor. Walter's popularity soars - but he needs to provide more work and that inevitably leads him to take desperate measures...

CAPSULE REVIEW

An often hilarious black comedy with Miller on excellent form as the simple busboy who strikes it lucky in beat art and has to go to quite extraordinary lengths to maintain his façade. It's tempting to see all sorts of satirical barbs at the superficiality of modern art, but really this is just flat out fun with Miller giving it his all in the lead role. A low budget gem.

USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP
Video Distributors: Rhino Video; Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video
DVD Distributors: MGM Home Entertainment (1000978); Sinister Cinema

1959
October
21: USA - theatrical release

2002
September
5: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (1000978))

You'll be sick - from laughing!

Will YOU join his human museum?

You'll be sick, sick, sick - from laughing!

A new dimension in horror!

Um Balde de Sangue - Brazilian television title
Una galleda de sang - Spanish Catalan title
Un secchio di sangue - Italian title
Das Vermächtnis des Professor Bondi - Austrian title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Evil Toons (1992)
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
Unleashing the Beast: Making 'The Howling' (2003)

REMAKE
Bucket of Blood (1995)

artists, beatniks, busboys, decapitations, poetry, poets, serial killers, strangulation

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009