The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

Theatrical release poster
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
Edited by Al Clark
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • August 6, 1959 (1959-08-06)
Running time
 75 minutes
Language English

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock is a 1959 film starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine.

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), is exposed to radiation in a cave and is changed thereby into a thirty-foot giantess. When Artie nervously explains to his betrothed's rich uncle that she has gotten "big", the uncle misunderstands "big" as "pregnant", and insists that Artie marry her immediately. Artie eventually manages to restore her to her normal size.

Cast

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 professional partner, Bud Abbott. It is based on an original screenplay titled 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 oversized 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.

Reception

Influence

Film clips from this movie were used for a parody in the music video She Will Have Her Way by Neil Finn.

Release

Home media

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film on a made to order DVD on September 13, 2010.

References

  1. ↑ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0

Bibliography

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