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 dates	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

Lou Costello - Artie Pinsetter
Dorothy Provine - Emmy Lou Raven
Lenny Kent - The Sergeant
Charles Lane - Standard Bates
Jimmy Conlin - Magruder
William H. Wright - Pentagon General
Will Wright - Pentagon General
Peter Leeds - Bill Burton
Robert Burton - First General

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 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 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

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

Bibliography

Stephen Cox and John Lofflin.The Abbott and Costello Story. Cumberland House Publishing, 1997.

External links

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock at the Internet Movie Database

Abbott and Costello

Bud Abbott Lou Costello

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