Buck Privates Come Home
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| Buck Privates Come Home | |
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| Directed by | Charles Barton |
| Produced by | Robert Arthur |
| Written by | John Grant Frederic I. Rinaldo Robert Lees |
| Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Tom Brown Nat Pendleton Beverly Simmons |
| Music by | Walter Schumann |
| Editing by | Edward Curtiss |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 4, 1947 |
| Running time | 77 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,167,500 |
| Preceded by | Buck Privates (1941) The Time of Their Lives (1946) |
| Followed by | The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947) |
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Buck Privates Come Home is a 1947 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is a sequel to their 1941 hit, Buck Privates.
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[edit] Plot
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello) and Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) are returning to the United States after serving in [[World War II}. They are aboard a troop shop that is on its way back from Europe. Also onboard is their old sergeant, Collins (Nat Pendleton). Collins enters their shipboard quarters with his superiors looking to search everyone's duffel bag in search of contraband. A six-year old French orphan, Evey (Beverly Simmons), that Herbie and Slicker befriended is found inside Herbie's bag. She is handed over to Lieutenant Sylvia Hunter (Joan Fulton) who delivers her to immigration officials in New York City. However, during a changing of personnel, Evey is mistaken for a neighborhood kid and is set free. Meanwhile, Herbie and Slicker are back to their pre-war occupation of peddling ties on Times Square. Their old sergeant is back as his old job as well, as a New York City police officer assigned to the Times Square area. He is about to arrest them when Evey shows up and helps them escape.
Herbie and Slicker try to adopt Evey, but they learn that one of them must be married and have a steady income. Evey suggests that Herbie marry Sylvia and they show up at her apartment to arrange it. However, they learn that Sylvia already has a boyfriend, Bill Gregory (Tom Brown).
Bill is a midget car racer, but his car is being held at a local garage until past due bills are paid. Herbie and Slicker use their separation pay and loans from their old service pals to get the car out of hock, as Bill has promised that it will win the $20,000 prize at the Gold Cup Stakes. However, Collins has other plans. He stakes out the garage in hopes of catching them and returning Evey to the immigration authorities to get himself back in good favor with his boss. He eventually chases them to the track where Herbie gets in one of the midget cars and leads everyone on a chase through the streets of New York.
He is caught eventually, but not before the head of an automobile factory sees the car and is impressed enough to order twenty of them, and an additional two hundred of its engines. With his financial future secure, Bill can now marry Sylvia and adopt Evey. Slicker and Herbie are allowed to visit her, but only if they get jobs. Collins' captain suggests that they join the police force, which they do...with Collins as their instructor!
[edit] Trivia
- It was filmed from November 18, 1946 through January 23, 1947.
- This was Pendleton's final film role.
- Arthur T. Horman, the writer for the original movie, Buck Privates wrote the first treatment for this sequel, titled The Return of the Buck Privates, but it was not used.[1]
- There is a joke used in the film that is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin.[2] Herbie says, "I'd rather marry a homely girl than a pretty girl anyway," to which Slicker replys, "Why?" Herbie responds, "Well, if you marry a pretty girl, she is liable to run away." Evey chimes in with, "But Uncle Herbie, isn't a homely girl liable to run away too?" Herbie's response is simple, "Yeah, but who cares?"
- When Costello drives the midget car through the rear of a movie theater, there is a poster that shows a fictional film, Abbott and Costello in 'Romeo Junior' on the wall. Scenes of Abbott and Costello in 'Romeo and Juliet' outfits, with Betty Alexander as Juliet, were filmed and were intended to be playin on the screen of the theater, but the scene was deleted.[3]
[edit] Routines
- The Sawhorse Table takes place on the ship. Costello creates a table by putting a board on a sawhorse. Everytime one of them puts something down on one end of the table, the other one puts something on the other end to balance it. Neither one of them are aware of what is happening, that is until the table finally loses its balance and a cake flies off the table into Pendelton's face.
[edit] DVD Releases
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[edit] Reference
- ^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
- ^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
- ^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
