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Release Date: 1959 Cast: Gale Gordon, Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine
Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family Film, Black-and-white The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock is a 1959 film starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine.
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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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock is a 1959 film starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine.
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.
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.
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 LESS
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