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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Lou Costello and His 30 Foot Bride / Die 9-Meter-Braut / The Secret Bride of Candy Rock
USA 1959
produced by Lewis J. Rachmil, Edward Sherman (executive) for Columbia
directed by Sidney Miller
starring Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane, Robert Burton, Will Wright, Lenny Kent, Ruth Perrott, Peter Leeds, Veola Vonn
idea by Jack Rabin, Irving Block, story by Lawrence L. Goldman, screenplay by Rowland Barber, Arthur A. Ross, music by Raoul Kraushaar, special photographic effects by Irving Block, Jack Rabin, Louis DeWitt
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Artie Pinsetter (Lou Costello) is a brilliant scientist who has
invented a time-bending machine - but he is unable to communicate his
scientific ideas to anyone, so he has started a business as trash
collector to finance his scientific hobby. Artie and Emmy Lou (Dorothy
Provine), niece of local bigshot Raven Rossiter (Gale Gordon), are a
couple, but since uncle Raven doesn't want a trash collector in his family
and thinks very little of Artie on top of that, he and Emmy Lou have to
keep their relationship a secret. Then though Emmy Lou grows to a height
of 30 feet for no apparent reason, and since uncle Raven mistagenly thinks
Artie has impregnated her, he has him married to her in a hurry, before
realizing the problem is much bigger (pun intended). Emmy Lou soon comes
to hate her situation, because being the way she is, she thinks she cannot
be a good housekeeper to her new husband, she thinks she's way too large
in every way, and her fits of jealousy lead her to do stupid things. All
of this is only slightly problematic though compared to the fact that the
army eventually gets wind of a giant blonde terrorizing the neighbourhood,
and when the Pentagon comes to the conclusion she has to be from Mars,
they plan an attack - an attack that is eventually only averted by Artie's
time-bending machine, which in the end saves the day, makes Emmy Lou
normal again, gets Artie recognition as a scientist, makes him and Emmy
Lou a normal loving couple, and teaches Raven Rossiter a lesson in ...
well, in something. The only film with Lou Costello in the lead
without his longtime comedy partner Bud Abbott by his side - and I have to
admit, Costello isn't bad when he isn't slapped in his face by his partner
half the time and has to fall into an extended yet worn-out routine the
other half of the time. That said, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
as a whole, which could have been a fun parody of then contemporary
sci-fi-films about giants like The
Amazing Colossal Man and Attack
of the 50 Foot Woman, is pretty much a disappointment, a film that
merely takes the basic premise of these movies as a hanger for a few
overly tried-and-true gags while dragging itself through a badly told and
unfunny story. Well, I guess at least it's no worse than most floicks Lou
Costello did with his partner Bud Abbott (click
here), but that's not saying much ...
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