"Process"
The man being spat on is Bobby Barber, employed on the set of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein specifically to prank the crew, dress up, throw pies, drop eggs from a gantry, ruin shots, whatever it took to keep the team's comic energy up between takes. Not a normal provision for a film shoot, his presence suggests two things: that onscreen jokers Bud Abbott and Lou Costello might not have been a guaranteed barrel of laughs to work with themselves, and crucially, that they knew it. A&CMF is the product of perfectionists, something Frankenstein Wednesdays have been short on recently, and I might even find myself arguing by the time this post is written, that it's the single most influential movie ever made.
Or I might not.
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