
Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything she can to get a picture of him to prove he's Russ Raymond. Tommy's friends, Pomeroy Watson and Smokey Adams,help him while Pomeroy writes love letters to Patty Andrews. But because Smokey makes Pomeroy lie about himself in the letters, and when Patty comes to th... (Full plot summary below)
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Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything she can to get a picture of him to prove he's Russ Raymond. Tommy's friends, Pomeroy Watson and Smokey Adams,help him while Pomeroy writes love letters to Patty Andrews. But because Smokey makes Pomeroy lie about himself in the letters, and when Patty comes to the Navy base, she's furious at Pomeroy. When Pomeroy, Smokey, Tommy and the Andrews sisters set sail for Hawaii, Pomeroy discovers there's a tomato in the potato locker, and she's been snapping shots of Tommy the whole trip. Whether Pomeroy's proving that 7 x 13 = 28 - three different ways, having Smokey help him play ship captain for Patty, or falling out of his hammock, it's an Abbott and Costello classic.
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| User ReviewLeesa MAbsolutely wonderful! The dancing is AMAZING! Script is phenomenal! |
| User ReviewRuth LHilarious!!!!!!! I Love It I laughed so hard!!! |
| User ReviewMilo BAlthough a lot like Buck Privates, I think this one is the funnier. It has a lot of stuff from the first two movies and more. |
| User ReviewJeremiah LPretty good A&C with more Andrews Sisters. There's less A&C hilarity and more side story though. |
| User ReviewJonathan STis one was interestin; but it wasn't that great... |
| User ReviewDeb ABud & Lou get a little more focus here than in Buck Privates but the story feels a little flat. Still jam packed with classic routines and you gotta love Shemp. It's good entertainment with a little bit of something for everyone. |
| User ReviewBarry LBud & Lou are a couple of seaman who are joined by Dick Powell as a radio star in hiding and a magazine photographer determined to get his photo. This was one of the pair's better outings with such comedy gems as "find the submarine", 7 times 13=28, the "Son's of Neptune" initiation and Costello trying to get into a hammock. The Andrews Sisters are on hand again to belt out a number of boogie-woogie tunes and rousing naval songs. |
| User ReviewGreg WThough this was the third movie Abbott and Costello filmed as top billed stars, it was released as their second, right after 'Buck Privates', because of its timely Naval story. It was used, admirably, as both a piece of escapist entertainment geared toward those fighting in the military and a way to involve citizens at home with what their beloved friends and family were bravely giving their lives to. As it lacks any kind of grit or realism, or fighting whatsoever (come on, it's a musical comedy), it rather fails at being informative or revealing. Sailors spend their time washing the ship and singing and dancing. Still, one has to take this for what it is- pure popcorn entertainment- and as that, it succeeds. There are some really memorable gags in here, including one involving a gambling scheme that must have been taken from an Abbott and Costello vaudeville act. Another one involves Costello explaining in a number of ways how thirteen multiplied by seven equals twenty-eight. Alongside the duo, Dick Powell, an actor I like a tremendous lot, hams it up a little as a celebrity crooner trying to lose his status and just slip into the Navy as an ordinary person; the beautiful Claire Dodd does her best, as a journalist, to out him. This isn't the best movie made by Abbott and Costello in their early days, but it certainly isn't their worst, and its portions of laughs make it a definite worthwhile watch for anyone interested in either the comic team or wartime entertainment. |
| User ReviewRichard SA good Abbott & Costello film. Not as good as Buck Privates. |