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Post #556181 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Sep 26, 2010 11:57 AM

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Aaaah, my fave film!

Here are the photographs that the giant idols in the nightclub were obviously carved from, taken from the vintage art book "Exotic Art", an English reprint of the Czech original (I believe).

I also believe that, though the nightclub was obviously a set (with partly Trader Vic's Havana Hilton decor), these statues might have originally stood in this Havana Bar. Their menu cover certainly fits the African primitive art look: