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Buck Privates is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Arthur Lubin released in USA on 31 january 1941 with Bud Abbott
Buck Privates (1941)
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Add to a movie listBuck Privates is the 1941 comedy/World War II film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bona fide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war (In the Navy and Keep 'Em Flying). A sequel to this movie, Buck Privates Come Home, was released in 1947. Buck Privates is one of three Abbott and Costello films featuring The Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract to Universal Pictures at the time.
Abbott and Costello performed a radio adaptation of the film on the Lux Radio Theater on October 13, 1941.
Synopsis
Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown (Abbott and Costello) are sidewalk peddlers who hawk neckties out of a suitcase. They are chased by a cop and duck into a movie theater, not realizing that it is now being used as an Army Recruitment Center. Believing that they are signing up for theater prizes, they end up enlisting instead.Actors
Bud Abbott
(Slicker Smith)
Lou Costello
(Herbie Brown)
Lee Bowman
(Randolph Parker III)
Jane Frazee
(Judy Gray)
Nat Pendleton
(Sgt. Michael Collins)
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, 1h21Directed by Arthur Lubin
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