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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780778604242
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0778604241
Label: Madacy Records
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Madacy Records
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Running Time: 69 minutes
Sales Rank: 101338
Studio: Madacy Records
Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1942
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... 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". ... 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.
Rating: - Private Buckaroo
Private Buckaroo is a wonderful wartime movie which I would reccomend to anyone who likes movies of the 1940's, and/or The Andrews Sisters. I am also a Three Stooges fan, so I also liked seeing Shemp in it too.
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