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Buck Privates: Directed by Arthur Lubin. With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Jane Frazee. Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
- (4.8K)
- Comedy, Musical, War
- Arthur Lubin
- 1941-01-31
Buck Privates is a 1941 American musical military comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin 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 .
- Dalton Norman
- Senior Staff Writer
- The Time Of Their Lives (1946) Though Abbott and Costello movies often followed similar plots and reused the same jokes, The Time of Their Lives was a surprisingly adventurous outing.
- Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - 7.4. Mirroring Universal's classic monsters crossover movies like Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, the comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein essentially put a hilarious period on the original Universal monsters cycle.
- Hold That Ghost (1941) Perfectly in their element as fish-out-of-water characters in way over their heads, Hold That Ghost continued the cinematic trends that would serve Abbott and Costello throughout their careers.
- Who Done It? (1942) No genre was safe from the comedic spoofing of Abbott and Costello, and Who Done It? saw them take aim at the ever-popular murder mystery.
- Staff Writer
- Who Done It? (1942) Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Who Done It? is Abbott and Costello's best film. A murder mystery-comedy, Who Done It? pairs Abbott and Costello as two soda jerks who pretend to be detectives in order to solve the murder of a radio executive killed during a live broadcast.
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a seminal genre-bending horror comedy that stars the duo as a pair of freight handlers entangled in a plot involving Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster.
- The Naughty Nineties (1945) Set during the 1890s, The Naughty Nineties is a period comedy starring Abbott and Costello as riverboat performers. After their captain loses his riverboat to a trio of gamblers, the duo tries everything in their power to get it back.
- Buck Privates (1941) Buck Privates turned Abbott and Costello into two of Hollywood's biggest movie stars. The film is a peacetime service comedy that stars Abbott and Costello as two sidewalk salesmen who accidentally enlist in the army.
BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME (Universal-International, 1947), directed by Charles T. Barton, reunites the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in a sequel to the film that made them instant sensations, that being BUCK PRIVATES (1941).
- (2.2K)
- Action, Comedy, Family
- Charles Barton
- 1947-04-04
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman.
Buck Privates Come Home is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring the team of Abbott and Costello. It was released by Universal-International and is a sequel to their earlier film Buck Privates (1941).
