Lou Costello stars as Artie Pinsetter, a local rubbish collector in the small town called Candy Rock. Artie is also a small time scientist with big ideas.
The love of his life is Emmy Lou Rossiter (Dorothy Provine), but her father Raven (Gale Gordon) is against them seeing each other. One day Artie sneaks Emmy Lou out in a trash can and they go to the desert together.
After a small argument Emmy Lou runs away and some radiation makes her suddenly grow to 30 feet tall. This causes the usual problems for a film like this, and all of them are well handled.
What I mean by this is that the scenes are funny and entertaining while not going overboard. It's light comedy and I enjoyed the heck out of it. I hadn't seen it for years.
I have read a lot of negative things about the movie and all I can do is shake my head and wonder why. Could it be that this is a movie where Costello doesn't have Bud Abbott?
Well whatever the case, I liked this film and can recommend it to you as well. The cast also includes Robert Burton, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane, Will Wright and Lenny Kent.
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