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
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.

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.

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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.

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Cultural references

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

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Home media

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

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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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External links

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

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