Monster of the Day #1849

Updated on November 30, 2018 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

Even Lou looks bored. This was the second to last Abbott & Costello movie, and as the story goes, the two comedians could barely stand each other at this point. There are still a few laughs and monster moments to be had here, but everything feels cheap and kind of tired. It’s notable that this was made only two years before Hammer Studios shook up horror (to say the least) with Curse of Frankenstein. The times were ready for a revolution, and they got it.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Bud really overdid it with the lipstick.

  • BGBear_rnh Icanseeclearlynow

    She looks fine to me. Oh Bud, sorry.

    Actually I did not know that was suppose to be Marie Windsor on the poster. Always fun in a “cheap” way. Swamp Diamonds!

  • Eric Hinkle

    Didn’t Lou make one final sort-of SF movie on his own right before he died? ‘Bride of Candy Rock’ or something like that?

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes, sort of a 50 Ft Woman kind of deal. The fact he didn’t make another one indicates how well received it was. The two eventually had to swallow their pride and get back together for a TV show.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Really? Bud and Lou got back together? I thought Lou died right before this film was released.

  • Ken_Begg

    Wow, my chronology was way off. 30 Ft Bride came out in 1959! No wonder it bombed.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’m sorry, but what does the year have to do with the reason why 30 Ft Bride bombed at the box office?

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, the heyday of A&C was the early ’40s (and before then in vaudeville), roughly two decades eariler. The cultural winds were heavily changing by the late ’50s. Although we’re talking comedy, not horror, 1959 is two years after Hammer starting making their faster more lurid Frankenstein and Dracula movies. Mad Magazine was huge back then, and the era also saw the creation of the youth market (aimed at the first generation of teens with the cars and money to pick their own entertainment). Even to kiddies something like 30 Ft Bride must have seemed awful creaky.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks for the explanation. My own tastes tended towards a lot of the 40’s stuff in TV and film even as a kid; I suppose part of me will never figure out why guys like Bud & Lou, the Three Stooges, and the Bowery Boys suddenly became old hat. My dislike of most modern ‘comics’ doesn’t help.