Buck Privates (1941)

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Directed By Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin Starring Bud Abbott Bud Abbott  •  Lou Costello Lou Costello  •  Lee Bowman Lee Bowman  •  Alan Curtis Alan Curtis  •  The Andrews Sisters The Andrews Sisters Genres Comedy  •  Military Comedy  •  Musical  •  Musical Comedy  •  Slapstick Studios &
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Abbott and Costello
Release Info 1941-01-31T00:00:00Z January 31, 1941
B&W  •  84 minutes NR Rated NR
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Cinema4Pylon

Cinema4Pylon on 3/4/2013 Reply  · 

Desperate to get away from cop Nat Pendleton (a favorite of mine), street con artists Bud and Lou accidentally join the U.S. Army. Too bad for them, Pendleton ends up as their sergeant. Buck Privates is merely OK in terms of military hi-jinks and once again, the romantic leads might as well be invisible, but this Oscar-nominated crowd-pleaser is more about building patriotic spirit (though it should be noted that America was still a year out from joining WWII; the film is centered around the early peacetime draft), and it does deliver on that count.

As fun as Abbott and Costello are throughout the picture (their bits flow more organically through the story than they did in One Night in the Tropics, A&C's first film), the real drivers of this picture are the songs by the Andrews Sisters, especially the "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" (introduced here and Oscar-nommed as Best Song) and "Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four" (the wild dance party number). The swingin' score keeps everything light and bouncing along briskly. The film also works well as a time capsule, and is recommended to anyone wishing for exposure to a heavy dose of early '40s popular lingo, fads and style.

Favorite bits: a craps game where the always innocent-seeming Lou knows a bit more about the game than he is initially letting on; the "loan me 50 bucks" bit ("Why are you running into debt?" "I'm not running -- you're pushing me!!"); and a ridiculous slapstick boxing match (Lou gets hit so hard below the belt that his trunks, with a big red heart emblazoned on the front, get flipped around so the heart is now on his rear).

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