Rating: - Private Buckaroo
This is another memorable Bud Abbott and Lou Costello film. It's joy and laughter from the beginning to end. Makes you want to be part of the 40s just to tune into all the of fun.
Rating: - Of some historic interest
This is essentially an armed forces recruitment film made by Universal shortly after the U.S. formal entry into World War II, utilizing some comics and swing musicians to raise the patriotic tenor. The wispy plot relates how the entire band of Harry James decides to enlist in the Army to follow its drafted leader, with a subsequent U.S.O. follies being organized directly before the entire group marches avidly into combat. With the exception of the reliable Mary Wickes, the comedians, in particular Joe E. Lewis and Shemp Howard, are dreadful and serve only to make the various musical interludes, notably those featuring the sprightly Andrews Sisters, a welcome relief --- from comedy. Former big band singer Dick Foran, who warbles the title tune, is the featured non-musical performer tasked to deal with the hapless propagandistic script, but 16 year old Donald O'Connor nearly steals the show along with some of his jitterbugging ... Read More
Rating: - The Andrews Sisters with Harry James
With the benefit of the DVD format, this film can be enjoyed as an Andrews Sisters concert with Harry James as well as the 1942 low-budget Universal musical that it was at the time of release (and a box office success, by the way). The Sisters swing on "Three Little Sisters" (note this is after the disaster at Bataan/Corregidor and the lyric "from Iceland to the Philippines" is changed to "from Iceland down to New Orleans"), "That's the Moon, My Son" and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree". This is a rare chance to hear the great Vic Schoen Andrews Sisters arrangements with the sharp James orchestra. This film also provides a glimpse of the great stage presence and commedienne quality of Patty Andrews, if only briefly. Harry James and Helen Forrest join forces for "You Made Me Love You" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen". James demonstrates his considerable talent on the trumpet several times and the ... Read More
Rating: - It's all in the dancing
If young dancer Donald O'Connor catches your eye in this film, it's thanks to choreographer John Mattison, who taught O'Connor (among others) much of what he knows. Mattison's daughter, Ethelyn, also dances in the chorus. Mattison, who danced in Vaudeville and on Broadway before working in Hollywood, went on to become a well-known dance teacher. His students included Basil Rathbone and Dan Dailey.
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