Three Men and a Baby
December 5th 2008 05:00
This week is Steve Guttenberg week at BTTE (that’s right!) And today we look at the master of comedy that is (ugh!) Three Men and Baby.
I don’t know who came up with this, but it starred 3 sex symbols of the time – well, 2 and The Gutte (sorry buddy, low blow) looking after a baby.
Man, you could only make this crap in the 80s.
Amazingly Three Men and a Baby was the biggest box office hit of that year, surpassing Fatal Attraction and eventually grossing US$167 million in the United States alone!
It was actually swiped from a French film and was the inspiration for the sickcom Full House and spawned its own sequel (naturally) Three Men and a Little Lady. It was also the cause of the equally tragic (and also starring a Cheers actor) Look Who’s Talking.
The most interesting thing about this movie is the urban legend that goes along with it.
In the final cut of the movie, there is a scene, just over an hour into the film, in which Jack Holden and his mother walk through the house with the baby. As they do so, they pass a background window on the left-hand side of the screen, and a black outline that appears to resemble a rifle pointed down can be seen behind the curtains. As the characters walk back past the window 40 seconds later, a human figure can be seen in that window. A persistent urban legend began circulating about August 1990 (shortly before the film's sequel premiered) that this was the ghost of a boy who had been killed in the house where the movie was filmed. The most common version of this rumour was that a nine-year-old boy committed suicide with a shotgun there, which is inspired by the earlier shape.
Check it out for yourself below at around the 39 second mark.
Anyway, this was The Gutte's most successful movie, so hats off to him; you gotta pay those bills, right?
More Guttenberg gold next time...
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Comment by DMX
Obviously the urban myth is just that, but it was kinda freaky when I saw that kid at the window.
Comment by Undercover Brother
hey, someone had to say it, right?
Comment by Cass
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