| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Antony Carbone, Dick Miller |
| Event |
Originally produced by NYX Channel in 1959. |
| Summary |
Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process. *"Corman's best work ... hilarious dialogue and a finale reminiscent of Fritz Lang's 'M' ... [this] low-budget comedy horror pic works both as satire at the expense of the Beat generation and as a trenchant little allegory about the New York art world in general." - Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab, **Sight & Sound*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Cult films.
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Satire.
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Motion Pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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Horror films.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Corman, Roger, film director.
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Carbone, Antony, actor.
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Miller, Dick, actor.
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NYX Channel (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
4459496 Kanopy |
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