The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
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| Directed by | Sidney Miller |
| Produced by | Lewis J, Rachmil |
| Written by | Rowland Barber Arthur Ross |
| Starring | Lou Costello Dorothy Provine Gale Gordon |
| Music by | Raoul Kraushaar |
| Editing by | Al Clark |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 6, 1959 |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Language | English |
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock is a 1959 film starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine.
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[edit] Plot
Artie Pinsetter (Lou Costello) is a junk collector and amateur inventor who lives in the desert town of Candy Rock. Artie's fiancée, Emmy Lou Raven (Dorothy Provine) happens upon magical waters of Dinosaur Springs and is changed into a thirty-foot giantess. While nervously explaining to her uncle that she has gotten "big" (which is understood by her uncle to mean "pregnant"), he insists that they be married immediately. Artie eventually restores her to normal size.
[edit] Production
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock was filmed from December 3 through December 22, 1958 and is the only film that Lou Costello starred in without his longtime partner, Bud Abbott. It is based on an original screenplay entitled The Secret Bride of Candy Rock Mountain.[1]
The film was not released until August 1959, five months after Costello died of a heart attack.
Much of the outdoor footage was shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., including a number of scenes depicting the oversize blonde beauty at her new home — a barn. The barn was part of a ranch set on the Upper Iverson known as the Fury Set, which was originally built for the television show "Fury."
[edit] Cultural references
Film clips from this movie were used for a parody in the music video She Will Have Her Way by Neil Finn.
[edit] Home media
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on a made to order DVD on September 13, 2010.
[edit] References
- ^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
- Stephen Cox and John Lofflin.The Abbott and Costello Story. Cumberland House Publishing, 1997.
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