Wednesday 4 March 2020

Final Frankenstein Placeholder

"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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